Specific Quotes
1077 quotes by 928 authors
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I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in…
— Joan Armatrading
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Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.
— Justin Amash
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I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.
— Emily Browning
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The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not…
— Idris Elba
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I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.
— Sutton Foster
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If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be…
— Antonio Gramsci
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture…
— Edward T. Hall
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...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).…
— Joseph Sobran
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
— Walter Gilbert
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Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
— Christopher Heyerdahl
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I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific…
— Chuck Hagel
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Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just…
— Jane Horrocks
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I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.
— Nicholas Hoult
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I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.
— Bong Joon-ho
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I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
— Bill James
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
— Famke Janssen
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New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an…
— Theo James
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People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden…
— Ken Jennings
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I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.
— Theo James
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