Specifics Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're…
— Charles Schumer
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I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
— Jonny Lee Miller
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
— Daniel B. Shapiro
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If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would…
— David Catania
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require…
— Forrest Church
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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental…
— Andrew Solomon
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'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you…
— David Harsanyi
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So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president…
— Robert Mueller
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He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the…
— Carly Simon
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they…
— Francine Prose
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing…
— Carrie Mae Weems
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Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.
— Garrison Wynn
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We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that…
— Robert Kirkman
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A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a…
— Jason Mraz
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When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.
— Craig Cackowski
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People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.
— Kristen Stewart
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The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending…
— Albert M. Wolters
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