“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.” IfsWayWantWritingBookHappensSpecialAmbition Author:Michael Lewis
“Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.” PeopleWayBelieveAmericaOrderAsksHousePresidentPayShareSpecialTaxesFairsRateReformCodeTreatmentWealthyRight WayAbsentLoopholesFair ShareTax ReformSpecial Treatment Author:David Plouffe
“People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.” PeopleWorldWayHateSpecialRight NowMailHate Mail Author:Nikki Reed
“Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really, I feel like is part of the theme and part of the best way to end the story that I'm telling with the special.” WayFeelsEndsStoriesStuffSpecialBest WayHeyThemeGrandmotherMasturbation Author:Jen Kirkman
“I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.” PeopleThinkingWayKindSpecialCome UpImpressed Author:Elizabeth McGovern
“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.” WorldWaySometimesShowsSeemsFoundEmotionQualityVisionSeeingSpecialEmotionalParticularFocusedLawyerObjectivesRationalLogicalIrrationalSubjectiveCriteriaExclusionDisdainInhumanInvaluable Author:Thane Rosenbaum
“The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.” WayGovernmentPoliticalEasyStuffSpecialCompetitionPrivilegeMaking MoneyRestrictionEasy WaySubsidies Author:Charles Koch
“I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.” WayAbleWantedTeamSpecialFineBirdShoesGladMy WayCheerUniformsChampionshipBostonCheerfulnessLarrySomething SpecialValetChampionship Team Author:Bill Walton