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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. — Zooey Deschanel
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a… — Beth Ditto
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. — Peter Drucker
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. — Lena Dunham
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's… — Bob Dylan
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is… — Umberto Eco
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar… — Jesse Eisenberg
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't… — Nathan Fillion
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my… — Tom Hanks
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,… — Sam Harris
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. — Vladimir Horowitz
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want… — Vladimir Horowitz
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and… — Naveen Jain
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship. — Penn Jillette
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were… — Billy Joel
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests. — Jeff Koons
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay… — Lawrence M. Krauss
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. — Timothy Leary

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