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• My father, never chooses me for anything. If you needed a kidney and I offered him mine, well, pfft. Well, he'd take it 'cos he was dying. It's not that he doesn't love me, 'cos he does. It's just that special kind of love that feels like neglect.

  Christopher Titus

  Father, Dying, Kidneys

  "Titus / Episode 27". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

  Eugene Mirman

  Fake, Evening, Comedy

  "Eugene Mirman: An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. December 21, 2012.

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• More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

  Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

  Bait, Littles, Argument

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• [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

  Martin Nolan

  President, Television, Condom

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• Where would we be without our friends? Honestly, every friend is so unique and special. I have my friends back in New Zealand, I have my friends in New York and California. Then you have your friends who are your family. Barbara Palvin falls into that category. I have a lot of love for all my friends.

  Stella Maxwell

  Fall, Unique, Our Family

  "Stella Maxwell cleans up". V Magazine Interview, vmagazine.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

  Peter Norvig

  Memories, Style, Purpose

  Peter Norvig (2014). “Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp”, p.9, Morgan Kaufmann

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• Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

  Dana Gould

  Stars, War, Simple

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 29, 2013

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• They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!

  Brad Stine

  Children, Silly, Use

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• I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Book, Comedian

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• If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

  Dov Davidoff

  Self, Names, Black

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• That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

  Godfrey

  Pride, Being Special

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• I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.

  Prince Royce

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• I don't date Janet Jackson. She is my girlfriend; there is a difference. She is a very special and talented woman who never ceases to amaze me.

  Wissam Al Mana

  Girlfriend, Differences, Cease

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• I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

  Joe Flacco

  Years, Olympics, Baltimore

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• We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.

  Bill Crow

  Years, Swings, Way

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Cameras, Degrees, Doe

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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• A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

  John Heartfield

  Art, Color, Kind

  John Heartfield (1977). “Photomontages of the Nazi Period”

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• Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

  Mona Kuhn

  Photography, Discovery, Self

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• And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.

  Joan Collins

  Night, Use, Made

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• I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

  Dolly Parton

  Great Company, Company, Partnering

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• I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Real, Awards

  "Dollywood Turns 25", www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Knowing, Tape

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• You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

  Keith Richards

  Baby, Wings, People

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• We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.

  Bobby Jindal

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "How Republicans can win future elections" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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