“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.” IfsThinkingMenGivingYearsTwoUseShowsSeemsUsedNamesRaceKnownPiecesParticularDeserveTreatsOriginalsJewCriminalsTricksInsultMaskContemptAssociatesMeannessCrawlingVagabondsSubterfuge Book:The Jews Source: The Jews
“Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.” IfsArtDifferentStuffParticularTvsOriginalsChests Author:Ricky Gervais
“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.” WorldImportantWarStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesCenturyParticularCapitalismExcitingClaimsRelationOriginalsStartingInternationalChinaDebateChineseOur TimeSurprising21st CenturyEmergingPolitical SystemsStarting Point Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.” WantWritingYearsFirstsPlayCharacterMightLastsActorsStageParticularMonthsSixOriginalsProductionsSix Months Author:Neil Simon
“When it comes to fashion, I'm just inspired by anyone who has their own flair or piece on anything. I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don't do what's been done or being done. I don't think I have anyone in particular. Just anyone who's original really inspires me.” PeopleThinkingDonePiecesFashionInspireParticularOriginalsInspiredOriginalityBeing DoneFlair Author:Blake Michael
“The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.” PeopleIfsTodayParticularTypeOriginalsTraitsAssociates Book:Personality and learning theory: the structure of personality in its environment Source: Personality and learning theory: the structure of personality in its environment
“I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.” GivingStillsHelpingOpinionParticularOriginalsIsraelChinaAlliesSurplusAnimus Author:Rand Paul
“Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really had a greater sense of how to write for this band -- not only for this particular instrumentation, but for these particular players. Each year, the reality is getting closer to the ideal of a collective.” WritingYearsRealityTermGreaterPiecesPlayerParticularBandIdealsOriginalsFactorsFantasticCollectivesStrongestCompositionInstrumentation Author:Joshua Redman
“I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsWarDoneCharacterStarsFeltFansParticularOriginalsPassionateCuriousAttachmentBeing DonePixar Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.” PresidentLeaderParticularOriginalsProfessionFascinatedPublic LifeGood LeaderBeing A Good Leader Author:Michael Beschloss
“I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.” ThinkingImportantAmericaPoliticalLanguageParticularOriginalsHistoricalArtisticAfrican AmericanThinkerDiscourseAmerican Writer Author:Raoul Peck
“Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.” PeopleYearsFirstsHumansRealEyeBeautifulDesireVoiceHuman BeingsSeeingFeetParticularCoupleMouthsOriginalsGhostToneSpellsFountainReal Human Author:Anais Nin
“Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare — which is perhaps, for both, the fact of not existing. Every art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, every work is the implementation of this original fault, from which come to us a new light and a risky conception of plenitude.” ArtLightArtistMistakeParticularDrawsOriginalsFaultsIntimacyLinkedExceptionalImplementationPlenitude Author:Maurice Blanchot
“Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.” YearsFactsInspirationPastScienceTakenParticularTheoryHundredConcernedOriginalsSettingSettingsBiologyExplorationDistributionGermsSpatialHuxley Author:David Stoddart
“Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.” WayTryingStoriesLightSchoolActorsHurtAbilityHavensParticularMaterialsTerribleProjectsHigh SchoolHollywoodOriginalsSellsMeetingsScriptsStudiosNovelistsExecutivesIt HurtsPlaywrightScreenwritersCopyrightScreenwriting Author:Amy Holden Jones