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• This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Giving, Cooking

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• It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenager, Water, Might

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

  Angela Merkel

  Running, Employment, Tests

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• I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be tickled to death knowing that that was what I was doing. I hope she would. She was a wonderfully unique and very special, very darling woman.

  Angela Lansbury

  Unique, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The mistake many people make when they go to a bespoke tailor is they often think they need to do something special - either an interesting design feature, or a particularly interesting or unique-looking cloth. I say do the opposite. Stick to something really simple, because this will be a suit that you will really want to wear, so start with something very straightforward and you will get an enormous amount of joy wearing it.

  Patrick Grant

  Mistake, Simple, Thinking

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Careers, Curiosity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Olympics is a huge deal, and there's such an adrenaline rush, but I am one of those people that finds every little victory in life extremely satisfying - the day I got married, the day I moved into my house, the first car I bought, becoming an uncle. The little victories in life really keep you going, and none of those are any less special than the Olympic team.

  Jonathan Horton

  Uncles, Team, People

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

  Rita Moreno

  Oscars, Performances

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  Q-Tip

  Thug, Track, Would Be

  "The tipping point" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

  Ryan Giggs

  Disappointment, Years, Achievement

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• Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got the biggest, heaviest calf machine in the world. It is a miracle that this man can even support this kind of weight. He is really an inspiration to me.

  Bill Pearl

  Art, Inspiration, Unique

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• There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

  James Randi

  Strong, Philosophy, Class

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, Justice, Office

  "New Nationalism Speech". Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, teachingamericanhistory.org. August 31, 1910.

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• Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

  Michael Jackson

  Olympics, Criticize, Reporters

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• I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

  George Carlin

  Moon, Offering, Firsts

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• Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Hands, Explanation

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.769, Race Point Pub

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• Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.

  Drew Storen

  Baseball, Military, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Government, Organization, Doubt

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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• I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it.

  Reuben Morgan

  Thinking, America, Australia

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

  Avery Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Nba

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Love Is, Land, Matter

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There's nothing too interesting about me, I'm just a dude that draws, I know there's nothing special about me that people would be standing in awe in front of me.

  Marko Djurdjevic

  People, Interesting, Would Be

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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