Particular Quotes
2839 Particular quotes by 2006 unique authors
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I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
— Don Rickles
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Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and…
— Jan C. Ting
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Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice…
— Alexandra Stoddard
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what…
— John Holdren
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Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their…
— Elaine Pagels
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
— Russell Smith
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I love wearing bow ties for no particular reason.
— Brad Goreski
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills…
— Ice Cube
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I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then…
— Mick Ebeling
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Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
— Norman Foster
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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing.…
— Chris Smith
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I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice…
— Ruth Ozeki
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I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.
— John Patrick Shanley
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I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me…
— David Henry Hwang
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing -…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song…
— Cassandra Clare
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