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Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

Todd English

Turkeys, Cache, Delicacy

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It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

DeForest Kelley

Average, Childhood, Individual

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I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Kristin Hersh

Games, Play, World

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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Daniel Dennett

Problem, Ethical, Mathematics

"Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

Richard Kiel

Being Yourself, Fun, Character

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Barbara Amiel

Wall, World, Barbarians

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I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Jeffrey Tambor

Class, Acting, Way

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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Victoria Principal

Working Together, Together

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That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Country, Ebb And Flow, Wonderful

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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Daniel Kahikina Akaka

Country, Cities, Disaster

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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

John Doerr

Running, Google, Development

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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

Men, Dying, Islam

"Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 1, 2002.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Unique, Ideas, People

ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

Jim Carrey

Life Is, Truman, I Can

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And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Allen Klein

World, Financial, Landmarks

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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Presidential, Politics, Administration

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.930, Best Books on

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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

Donald Judd

Expressionism, Radical, Pollock

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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Alan Moore

Book, Lazy, Film

"Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carroll O'Connor

Artist, Enemy, Reviewers

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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jessica Savitch

Careers, Effort, Joints

Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Jamie Zawinski

Joy, Littles, Toys

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It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Islamic, Views, Europe

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In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

Brett Favre

Football, Years, Forever

"Brett Favre: First And Ten". IGN SPORTS interview, www.ign.com. November 29, 2004.

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This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Joseph Rotblat

War, Reality, Civilization

Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Carol Ann Duffy

Winning, Males, Fiction

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