Special Quotes
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Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?
Daniel Mendelsohn
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If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
Roberto Cavalli
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You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
Shaun Cassidy
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The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special...
Bob Marley
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I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.
Charles Lloyd
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs
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The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.
Carole Radziwill
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.
Miriam Makeba
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
Richard Feynman
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Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
Susan Polis Schutz
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
Charles Brent
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One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?
Diane Ackerman
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I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
Jourdan Dunn
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In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.
Charlamagne Tha God
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I don't want to take away from anything from my time at Texas. I think it was actually pretty darn special.
Mohamed Bamba
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There's something very special about playing for Liverpool.
Mohamed Salah
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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
Sara Zarr
