“Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.” ThinkingWorldRealSelfDreamMovingLevelsFantasyForeverUniqueProfoundAncientMythologyStorytellingReal WorldReal SelfAlways And Forever Author:Lloyd Alexander
“When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.” KnowsWantLooksPersonsSeemsExpressionTrumpUniqueDrawsRevelationsOnlineInstructionAngleCartoonSlidesManualsCaricaturesFacialFacial ExpressionDesktopFolders Author:Barry Blitt
“We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.” PeoplePerceptionUniqueNoiseDisagreeAdvocacy Author:Ivanka Trump
“Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.” PeopleThinkingShouldImportantMusicianUniqueImportant ThingsDesigner Author:Taeyang
“I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to do. If you say you are a comedian that has been done before. If you just be who you are then you are unique. Everyone is unique.” IfsHas BeensDoneAttentionUniquePaidWho You AreComedianBe Who You Are Author:Rita Rudner
“The important thing is to find what's unique about yourself, find what's unique about someone else. And embrace everything in the moment, as opposed to constantly comparing yourself and your lover and your relationship to a static set of expectations.” ImportantMomentsLoversUniqueExpectationsImportant ThingsEmbraceCompareAbout YourselfOur RelationshipStaticComparing Yourself Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of working all over the world. I've enjoyed a great degree of variety in the work that I've done. It's been quite unique.” WorldHas BeensDoneBlackRaceVirtueDegreesUniqueVarietyEnjoyedFortunateMixed Race Author:Thandie Newton
“I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens unexpectedly and looks painful. That's how it is in real life, and that's how it should be expressed. I don't glamorize it, nor do I depict it without necessity or inevitability.” ThinkingWayShouldLooksRealShowsHappensHurtViolenceUniquePainfulReal LifeMy WayFilmmakerIt HurtsInevitability Author:Takeshi Kitano
“It really was a unique experience to me to have a television show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that I really cared about so much, and to know that it was the end, and know that that was the ending of it. We had a wrap party, and we thanked everybody. You don't get that a lot, especially in comedy.” PartyComedyUnique Author:Scott Aukerman
“We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense of our country's unique place in it. This is a foreign policy debate, and you cannot conduct foreign policy without a sense of what we are fighting for. And any President who can reduce the conduct of this country's affairs to a morning's attack by a bunch of demented fascists does not, in my view, understand what this great nation is all about.” FightingUnderstandingPresidentLeaderPolicyBalanceUniqueAffairDebateForeign PolicyDemented Author:John F. Kerry
“The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.” EarthUniverseUnique Author:Sylvia Earle
“Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.” ProblemCultureEasySpecialUniqueDisappearUniqueness Author:David Harvey
“I think one of the problems in determining the ending for a television series is that you don't know how long the show is gonna last. Particularly because we were in the unique position of adapting Tom's Perrotta novel The Leftovers, it always felt like the first season was gonna end with the end of Tom's novel, and then we would figure things out from there and look back.” ThinkingLongProblemNovelUniqueAdapting Author:Damon Lindelof
“Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!” PeopleChildrenImportantSometimesOpportunityIndividualParentAttentionSonDadUniqueIncrediblesPay AttentionMy SonMumGrandparentMy Best FriendMum And Dad Author:Liv Tyler
“I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way and very unique way of telling a story. And there's a lot to be learned from each country, and each language, and how they tell a story.” CountrySpeakLanguageUniqueStoryteller Author:Mido Hamada
“Trump is such a unique candidate. He's incredibly polarizing. But I see the same kind of blinders on the left. There's perhaps a little less anger, but there is nothing that Hillary Clinton can do to stop most of this nation from voting for her. You do see people who are just buying into the narrative they want to hear, and they are pushing out the narrative they don't.” PeopleKindUniqueClintonVoting Author:Roy Wood, Jr.
“Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.” SometimesPastUnderstandingIdentityFootballDutyAuthorityUniqueConcernComplainingLatinModernismLatin AmericaAmerican Writer Author:Adam Morris
“I feel there's so much purpose that's left in me to share with people and I'm just ready to use my gift in the right way because I know I have a gift and it's unique and different than anybody else's. I'm supposed to do something with it and I'm happy that I know that now.” PeopleDifferentPurposeShareUnique Author:Brandy Norwood
“I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.” UniqueMusic Industry Author:Nikki Yanofsky
“It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.” ThinkingUnique Author:Reed Morano
“Following the script is one thing, but the unique way in which you deliver your lines is what makes them your own.” Unique Author:DeRay Davis
“I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.” TryingKindProblemPoliticalSportsUniqueThings HappenInterfere Author:Vladimir Putin
“Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they want. Seasteads are their chance to demonstrate their vision can work. All that matters is that people can create, join, and leave seasteads voluntarily. As long as people can choose among seasteads, the best ways of living together will prosper, and the ones that people don't like will fail.” PeopleLongTogetherValuesCommunityChanceVisionTechnologyFailingUniqueOrganizeLiving Together Author:Joe Quirk
“It was something very beautiful because we all had that interest. We were very close to all of the different groups of the time - the ones that we began to play with in the same venues - Maldita Vecindad, Caifanes, Botellita de Jerez. However, we were all very different, and each group had their unique way of expressing themselves; their own original voice. It was a very beautiful era of Mexican music, and the truth is that we are very fortunate to have been part of it.” DifferentBeautifulInterestTruth IsUniqueMexicanVery Beautiful Author:Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega
“On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of the things I'm learning is that when stuff goes wrong, really brilliant musicians have the ability to turn this into something interesting and unique. I think good people in any sphere of anything know how to deal with problems, how to take it in your stride. We are learning this by touring, by being put in these positions when we need to focus and deal with it.” PeopleThinkingMeanProblemAbilityInterestingFocusMusicianUniqueBrilliantGood PeopleSomething Interesting Author:Joey Badass
“The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I don't need to deal with lawyers. I don't need to deal with corporations. I don't need to deal with executives or agents or any of that. I can just sit at home and make a feature film. That's a wonderful experience. Each film I make gets more popular, more press and makes more money. So it's amazing that I've survived and actually prospered doing that sort of homegrown, cottage-industry filmmaking.” ThinkingHomeFilmWonderfulUniqueLawyerFilmmakingAnimation Author:Bill Plympton
“Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.” PeopleHeartTogetherCommonPathRichUniqueStriveHistoricCommon Good Author:Jim Hightower
“Donald Trump has a unique connection with his voters. There aren't that many people personally invested in Barack Obama. The people invested in Obama are invested in an idea that it's about time white America took it on the chin. That it's about time the people that founded this country found out what it's like to not be in a majority. That's the kind of people Obama has a connection to.” PeopleKindCountryUniqueBarack Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think there is just this inherent understanding between us at a subconscious level when we play. It's like we anticipate each other's next move before it's made and we all land together somehow. It's that "something" that really good bands have that makes what they do unique. It's also something that is easy to take for granted, especially as the years spent performing together go by.” ThinkingTogetherMovingEasyUnderstandingUniqueGrantedPerformingSubconscious Author:Edward Kowalczyk
“Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting of a scene, the widespread creative marksmanship happening all around you for every second of footage. Onstage you can suddenly feel solitary, like it's all on your shoulders, while on camera you feel like there are so many people working with you on every shot. Those are each unique and gratifying challenges.” PeopleEnjoyChallengesCreativeSceneUniqueSolitary Author:Bryce Pinkham
“Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.” InterestingUniqueArchitectureBizarreVery InterestingEuro Author:Chris Demetral
“Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.” InterestingUniqueNegativeFlaws Author:Matt Warburton
“Win 10 times in an important event like Monte-Carlo is something difficult to describe the feeling. Every year have been a different feeling. At the same time is always a unique moment every time I have this trophy with me.” ImportantDifferentMomentsFeelingsWinningDifficultUnique Author:Rafael Nadal
“I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique.” ThinkingSpecialUniqueHard Things Author:Alex Kurtzman
“We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.” PeopleCountryCarePresidentProgressAchieveUniqueDebateSignificantHealth CareUniversal Health Care Author:Barack Obama
“We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” PeopleThinkingRememberHumanityChristViolenceTerribleUniqueHorseIslamTerrorCommittedBetray Author:Barack Obama
“Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.” ThinkingChildrenHelpingFilmImaginationUniqueOur ChildrenStorytellingYour ChildrenBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Jeph Loeb
“The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.” UniqueLaw EnforcementFbi Author:James R. Clapper
“You Australian guys have your own way of speaking about music, you guys have your own way of enjoying music. You certainly have a very energised creative and cultural centre. Everyone I meet in Australia has a very unique soul... There's a lot of culture out there, and I meet a lot of nice people.” PeopleSoulGuyCultureEnjoyCreativeNiceUniqueNice People Author:Mr. Carmack
“There's always going to be someone prettier, smarter, funnier, better than you - something - but you're you. And no one can take that away from you. Every single person in this world is unique and special and worth something. You can become anything you want to. We just live in a society where they love to kick people when they're down, and they love to put a label on everything.” PeopleWorldSpecialUniqueSingle PersonJust Live Author:Kelly Osbourne
“What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to begin with and applying those principles to the unique challenges of this new century. And those principles are not complicated. It begins with a notion that this nation was founded on a powerful spiritual principle, that our rights do not come from government. Our rights do not come from our laws. Our rights do not come from our leaders. Our rights come from God.” ProblemSpiritualChallengesPowerfulLeaderUniqueComplicated Author:Marco Rubio
“Dance is a way of connecting and finding a moment with someone. It really is something special and unique that you don't find in any other physical activity, you know? Because it's you with another person, and you guys dive in together with these characters. So dance, to me, has been really special to create amazing bonds with people.” PeopleMomentsCharacterTogetherGuySpecialUnique Author:Allison Holker
“I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.” FailingUnique Author:Patton Oswalt
“Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of this planet - and before we take them all down, we ought to see what we can do to preserve this unique and extraordinary family. That's what I think the wounded healer would do. We're all wounded in one way or another. The question is, can we heal?” ThinkingHumanityUniqueExtraordinaryHealNoticingHealer Author:Alex Grey
“To me, being a woman in 2016 means having a voice, being unique, being true to yourself, and finding a way to be of service.” MeanUniqueBeing TrueBe True To YourselfTrue To Yourself Author:Jenna Dewan
“I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.” WritingImportantTogetherInterestingUniqueDirectReally Interesting Author:Will Sheff
“We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.” PeopleWorldKindRememberSongBrainTechnologyTakenChangedUniqueEmptyBigger Picture Author:Don McLean
“You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.” PeopleThinkingUniqueCivil RightsHopefullyYour FaceCivil Rights Movement Author:Debra Winger
“The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. But Hollywood has forgotten that, in the past, what made Hollywood great and what made it go ahead was the fact that Hollywood was fed with, for example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.” WorldTryingKindProblemPastCultureUniqueOkayForgotten Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“I say that the United States of America is a unique experiment in history. I believe in American exceptionalism. I wasn't for sending ground forces into Libya. It would have been counterproductive, but we are an inspiration to these people. I know because I've looked them in the eyes, and they looked at me. They look to America for inspiration and leadership.” PeopleBelieveInspirationEyeI BelieveUniqueAmerican Exceptionalism Author:John McCain