Specific Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. — Theodor Adorno
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
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
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
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
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
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
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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
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
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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