Specialty Quotes - Page 2

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

Graham Swift

Doctors, Becoming, Might

"'How did I end up becoming a novelist?'" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Steve Albini

New York, Home, Eating

"Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

Hermann Maier

Thinking, Week, Rhythm

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People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

Jeffrey Bewkes

Sports, Mean, Rights

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The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

Health, Medicine, Body

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mind, Genius, Compass

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His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

Jonathan Maberry

Pain, Gentleman, Monsters

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To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.

Chase Twichell

Heart, Venice, Cities

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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness, Ideas, Diversity

"Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

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Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.

Mary Virginia Terhune

Slavery, Letters, Agitation

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If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

Dolly Parton

Fashion, Southern, Soul

"Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.

Bert Blyleven

Baseball, Perseverance, Kids

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Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

Leon Trotsky

Men, Political Will, Class

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A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment

Barry Lynes

Cancer, School, Simple

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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

Malik Bendjelloul

Two, Strange Stories, Stories

"SUNDANCE FUTURES: Why Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Was the First Buy of Sundance 2012". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 21, 2012.

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I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

William Webb

Art, School, Color

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Reading to small children is a specialty.

Clifton Fadiman

Children, Reading, Small Child

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Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.

Paula Nelson

Home, Equality, Battle

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When we have laws that compartmentalize medical information, and when we have paper systems that compartmentalize medical information, you sometimes have a doctor who understands his specialty and is terrific on your kidneys, but he doesn't understand the totality of who you are.

Newt Gingrich

Doctors, Law, Paper

"Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Way, Study

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I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.

Vin Diesel

Hurt, Wrestling, Fighting

"Vin Diesel Interview, Riddick". www.moviesonline.ca. November 23, 2017.

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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Jean Cocteau

Over You, Despair, Finesse

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Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.

Paul Simon

Kings, Communication, Boys

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It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.

Saul Bellow

Pride, Rights, Class

Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.62, Odyssey Editions

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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

Vagit Alekperov

People, Giving, Advice

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