Distinctive Quotes
148 quotes by 139 authors
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It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and if a woman’s…
— Jimmy Choo
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I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I…
— Robert Draper
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of…
— Vladimir Lenin
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
— Alison Gopnik
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I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against…
— Stone Gossard
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and…
— Rachel Cusk
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Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom.…
— Terry Eagleton
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
— Anne Enright
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I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we…
— Hugh Jackman
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it,…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
— Ethel Merman
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in…
— Gary Numan
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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the…
— John Podhoretz
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When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both…
— Liev Schreiber
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to…
— Brian Setzer
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains…
— Alexander Smith
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
— Oliver Stone
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
— Bill Veeck
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Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an…
— Donatella Versace
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive…
— George Edward Woodberry
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