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“Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?”

Ifs Two Reason Running Together Culture Individual Company Identity Offers Unique Household Efficiency Mergers

Author:Simon Sinek

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

Art Literature Common Greatness Unique Art Is

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.”

Thinking Different President Position Majors Unique Respect Ministers Prime Centre Prime Minister Relevance

Author:Peter Singer

“There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.”

Kind Children Parent Deals Break Unique Temporary Stressful Single Parent Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.”

Important Enough Social Black Particular Serious Unique Consideration Entity Black Women Scholarly

Author:Barbara Smith

“Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.”

Inspirational Made Unique Angel Diamond

Author:Jaclyn Smith

“I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.”

Thinking Running Kids Style Unique Parenting Styles

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.”

Persons Whole Laughing Unique Careful Storytelling Hopefully Manipulation Amazing Things Single Person Most Amazing Unique Experiences Good Storytelling

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.”

Knows Unique Shore Jersey Jersey Shore

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.”

World Persons Unique Individuality Brilliant Admiration Phenomenon Uniqueness Underestimate Adoration Admirer Schwarzenegger Physique Admiration And Respect

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

Spirit Habit Unique

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona

“Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.”

Want Important Moments Stories Use Pain Past Speak Struggle Unique Including Makeup Hardship Vocal Your Past Cords Vocal Cords

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.”

Hands Political Unique Clinton Lawyer Hospitals Resumes Administrators Working Women

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.”

Way Records Inspire Expression Unique Genre Tied Composing

Author:Serj Tankian

“Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.”

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.”

Way Made Different Dream Song Differences Attitude Creativity Unique Albums Coming Out My Attitude Nashville Mutts

Author:Shania Twain

“The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.”

Country Purpose Interest Groups Perception Unique Flow Universal Pursue Legitimacy Small Groups Unesco Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.”

People Way Different Feelings Culture Projects Unique Asian Exotic Hardness

Author:Paz Vega

“We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.”

Knows Wells Change Born Personality Unique Lays Appearance Characteristics Life Experience Blueprints Physical Health Unique Characteristics

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.”

States United Principles United States Support Democracy Unique Commitment Israel Mutual Steadfast Steadfastness Democracy Freedom Freedom And Peace

Author:John Boehner

“The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”

Behinds Car Unique Racing Identical Race Car Motor Racing Funniest Sports Car Racing Auto Racing Funny Racing Dumb Sports Motorsports Funny Car Racing Nascar Racing

Author:Murray Walker

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”

Ideas Success Creativity Possibility Unique Innovation Driven Bucks

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.”

Different Song Sound Elements Unique Jazz Songwriting Zombie Classical Music

Author:Paul Weller

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

Art Work Results Unique Art Is Works Of Art Temperament Artistic Temperament

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.”

Art Said Culture Nations Gone Design Particular Hero Paper Unique Bills Celebrate Narrative Aspiration Goodbye Colorful Euro Utopian

Author:George Will

“At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.”

World Ends Country Spirit Doubt Unique No Doubt The End Of The Day End Of The World

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

Persons Different Speak Marriage Unique Female Absolutes Males Partners Chosen Echoes Faithfulness Covenant Covenant With God

Author:Rowan Williams

“What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.”

Shows Interesting Audience Unique Awkward Pauses Captured

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.”

Mean Given Process Decision Poor Millions Members Unique Shadow Institutions Males Decision Making Borrowers Decision Making Process

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.”

Different Remember Bits Sports Memories Ability Player Information Keys Unique Chess Attributes Relevant Stamina Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.”

Men Together Progress Design Divine Perspective Unique Glory Men And Women Capacity Female Perfection Males Temperament Distinctive Unique Perspective

Author:David A. Bednar

“Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.”

Children Teaching Unique Female Males Characteristics Nurturing Completeness Unique Characteristics

Author:David A. Bednar

“In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.”

People Ifs Persons Lines Struggle Week Unique Assembly Joining Bollywood Assembly Line

Author:Vir Das

“The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.”

Facts Cities Unique Good Things Canada Cents Residents Toronto Over 50

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.”

People Doe Ideas Literature Unique Meetings Oneself Outlook Scientism Being Unique

Book:The House In Paris

Source: The House In Paris

“I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.”

Thinking World Way Feels Mean Problem Stuff Parent Realizing Like You Unique Originals Yeah Connected Islands Good Way

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.”

Years Happens Running Lasts Romance Left Water Situation Unique Advantage Prepared Be Prepared Electricity Touring Running Water

Author:David Bowie

“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.”

Nature Modern Talent Health Thousand Unique Scientist Species Combination Dozen Factories Ancestor Improving Mushrooms Identifying Miniatures Pharmaceutical

Author:Paul Stamets

“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.”

Character Faces Personality Elements Unique

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,"How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with?" When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.”

Humans Helping Use Spiritual Law Humanity Asks Human Beings Ability Talent Unique Thirds Fellows Contact Components Dharma Service To Humanity Unique Talents

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.”

World Way Needs Whole Spiritual Law Can Do Wealth Creative Talent Expression Unique Whole World Abundance Sparks Unlimited Dharma Affluence Matched Creative Expression Unique Talents

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78”

Ifs World Needs Mean Persons Has Beens Ends Born Unique Originals Narrative Something New Diamond Sober Like Her

Author:Martin Buber

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.”

Ifs Thinking World Life Two Social Voice Answers Alive Equal Unique Importance Claims Strive Complicated Billions Intense

Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

Knows Should May Self Body Girl Boys Skills Unique Sacred Sexuality Concentration Cycles Pace Phases Entrances Rigor Self Contained

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Every individual has a unique contribution.”

Individual Unique Contribution

Author:Jack Kornfield

“I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.”

World Life Is Given Alive Mystery Minutes Unique Expectations Miracle Saving This Life Predictions Emerging

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“The unique must be fulfilled.”

Unique Fulfilled

Author:Martha Graham

“Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.”

Country Unique Protection Oblivion Relish Sameness

Book:Nothing's Sacred

Source: Nothing's Sacred