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“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Looks Persons Said Father Stars Unique Discussing Cosmology

Book:Axis

Source: Axis

“In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.”

Mean Persons Important Today Jesus President Chance Prove Unique Neighbor Campaigns President Bush Love Thy Neighbor Important Person Most Important Person Mean Love

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

Bigs Spiritual Grows Space Cities Clear Greater Protect Unique Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Settlement Big Cities Uncontrollable

Author:Fritz Todt

“Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.”

Giving Heart Long I Can Age Form Humanity Individual Growth Unique Universal Flesh Sequence Pulse Intercourse Tissues Olaf

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.”

Character Political Lying Activity Unique Publicity

Book:In Defense of Politics

Source: In Defense of Politics

“What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.”

May Ideas States United United States Issues Unique Privacy Unconstitutional

Author:Chris Asplen

“So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.”

Knows Objects Unique Uniqueness

Author:Donald E. Brownlee

“The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.”

Needs Individual Struggle Groups Conflict Unique Adolescence Dominant

Book:Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.”

Thinking Doe Problem Games Week Team Unique Hitting Uniqueness Committees Pitching

Author:Wayne Graham

“Lindsay is unique in that she's a star in creating. She'll create something out of nothing, either for herself or her teammates. She's the Steve Nash of the WNBA.”

Stars Creating Unique Uniqueness Teammate Wnba

Author:John Whisenant

“UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership”

Has Beens Important Modern Unique Exciting Partnership Uniqueness Supporter Delighted

Author:Nicholas Serota

“Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer.”

Looks Persons Facts Quality Particular Creating Messages Unique Neglect Portraits Observers Select Single Person Portraiture

Author:Alton Tobey

“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”

Way Doe Important Seems Artist Fashion Unique

Author:John Kurtz

“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”

Stories Earth Artist Song Creative Particular Unique Signatures Irreplaceable

Book:The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

Source: The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.”

“Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.”

Needs Firsts Doe Different Might Spiritual Spirituality Individual Interesting Attention Journey Unique Garden Filled Constant Items

Book:A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft

Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft

“Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.”

“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Writing May Soul Dream Spirit Path Generations Magic Lucky Unique Inspired Library Driven Clever Setting Settings Wander Your Soul Volume Downloads Osmosis

Author:Arthur Plotnik

“All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.”

Two Real Matter States Problem Form Suffering Causes Keys Unique Areas Critical Agents Budgets Firm Enterprise Divides Ownership Principal Constraints Riders Private Sector Inefficiency

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.”

Way Want Persons Purpose Grows Ability Unique Respect Sake Individuality Absence Awe Serving Exploitation Ability To See

Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”

Different Seems Sound Levels Consciousness Quality Pieces Movement Higher Music Is Unique Unity Mythology Examination Occult Higher Level Baroque Baroque Music Vivaldi

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.”

Ifs Trying Mean Art Religious Levels Study Psychology Missing Elements Unique Economics Essence Sacred Phenomenon Sociology Linguistics Physiology

Author:Mircea Eliade

“The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”

People World Ends Able Political Found Plans Victory Unique Eternity Notes Shakes Delusion Initiative Dictatorship Domination Political Systems Yoke Craziest World Domination

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.”

Source: The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites

“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.”

Pain Grace Childhood Special Periods Unique Adults Core Ignorant Bliss Lament Ignorant Bliss

Author:Barry Privett

“This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.”

“Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.”

Years Real Powerful Vision Unique Exciting Finest Storyteller Real Things Debut

Author:David Farland

“Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.”

Men Actors Unique Courageous Favourite Tracy Courageous Man

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.”

Persons Unique Meetings

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.”

Ifs World Want Should Philosophy Happens Can Do Talent Unique Priorities Contribution Can Do Something Portfolios Priorities In Life Personal Philosophy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.”

“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.”

Ifs World Years Wisdom Past Next Politics Half Economy Greater Economic Century Unique Economics Impact Various Liberalism Fifty Regions Requirements Marxism Adapted Pluralism

Author:Robert Dickson Crane

“There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, we know that we love each other, keep communication open. We knew how unique this was-you're doing a movie that really could be put out there all over the world, and you're telling this personal story about your family.”

Knows World Stories Communication Dad Unique Quitting Chiefs Our Family Love Each Other Stay True Personal Stories

Author:Andrew Shue

“The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.”

Feels Stories Knowing Unique Originals Sexy Violent Good Work Charming Doing Good

Author:Derek Jacobi

“Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.”

Years Firsts Humans Brain Half Virtue Unique Links Fossils Apes Human Brain Skeletons Hunted Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.”

Years Wells Literature Couple Unique Rap Posts Watergate

Author:Bob Woodward

“I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.”

Thinking Self Situation Teaching Buddhism Approach Unique Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.”

Ifs Knows Light Literature Pieces Serious Personality Unique Cooking Related Topics Unique Personality Health Related

Author:Katie Couric

“Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny.”

Source: Life of the past: an introduction to paleontology

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.”

Persons Film Unique Independent Fund Independent Film Unique Experiences

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.”

Mind Ideas Together Talent Unique Guitar Mind Set Guitar Playing

Author:Slash

“Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.”

Thinking Father Unique Daughter Daughter To Father

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.”

Thinking Way Want Wells Universe Wonder Special Creatures Unique Capacity One Way Present Time

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.”

Feels Sports Process Healing Special Huge Blessing Ocean Unique Surfing Adrenaline Skateboarding Healing Process Adrenaline Rush Unique Things

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Surfing is so unique and it's something that no matter what level you are, you can go and have fun. You can pick and choose the waves that you want to surf, so if it is too big and scary, you can wait until it changes and gets more to your level. Every time you go out it's always different and unique. It's almost like a place you can just de-stress.”

Ifs Want Different Matter Bigs Fun Waiting Levels Unique Picks Stress No Matter What Wave Scary Having Fun Surfing Surf De Stress

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”

Way Art Hard Form Water Sun Creative Special Ocean Unique Skins Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Film Unique Skins Stupidity Thick Stamina Mules Thick Skin

Author:Terry Gilliam

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

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