Specific Quotes
1077 quotes by 928 authors
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime…
— Hannah Arendt
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick…
— Paul Auster
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The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years…
— Michele Bachmann
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a…
— David Bailey
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go…
— Javier Bardem
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal…
— Gary Bauer
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
— Theodor Adorno
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if…
— Lewis Black
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In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the…
— John O. Brennan
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The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s…
— Julie Burchill
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the…
— Edmund Burke
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I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind,…
— Drew Carey
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system…
— Deepak Chopra
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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke,…
— John Cleese
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I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is…
— George Clooney
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