Specific Quotes

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The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your… — Colin Angle
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic… — Paul Di Filippo
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while… — Roxane Gay
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or… — Damien Chazelle
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world. — Damien Chazelle
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. — Jane Wagner
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and… — Barbara McClintock
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree… — Ben Nelson
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive… — Anne Wilson Schaef
Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. — Arthur Hertzberg
Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific. — Lee H. Hamilton
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific… — Frederik Pohl
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. — Robert Vaughn
I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about… — Michael Isikoff
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. — Madeleine Stowe
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand… — Adolf Loos
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions… — Jim Ramstad
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of… — John Sayles
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or… — Richard M. Helms

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