Rare Quotes

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There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive… — Arlene Dickinson
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You… — Heather Matarazzo
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let… — Peter Singer
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten.… — Zhuangzi
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new… — George W. Bush
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting… — Peter Tork
Iâ€™ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didnâ€™t have a pimp. She could pick and… — Gloria Steinem
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his… — Thomas Jefferson
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave… — Ray Bradbury
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — Charles Bukowski
Good writers are of necessity rare. — George Henry Lewes
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals — William Graham Sumner
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari. — Jacky Ickx
There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn… — William Herbert Sheldon
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. — Confucius

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