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“I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.”

“You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.”

“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.”

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Author:Alan Dean Foster

“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.”

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Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.”

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Author:Richard MacDonald

“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

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Author:Story Musgrave

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.”

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Author:Jessye Norman

“I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.”

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Author:Jessye Norman

“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”

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Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.”

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Author:Ellen Ochoa

“You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.”

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Author:Joseph O'Neill

“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

“I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”

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Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

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Author:Kevin Powers

“The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.”

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Book:An Introduction to Mathematics

Source: An Introduction to Mathematics

“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.”

Source: The Jews

“As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.”

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Author:Nahum Goldmann

“I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

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Author:Eric Liu

“But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.”

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Author:Elaine Paige

“The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.”

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Author:Philippe Perrin

“Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.”

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Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.”

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Author:Charles Rangel

“There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.”

“My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.”

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Author:John Shelton Reed

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

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Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.”

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Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.”

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Author:George Saunders

“With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.”

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Author:Johannes Stark

“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

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