Special Quotes - Page 9

• The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Liberty

  Baltimore Evening Sun, February 12, 1923.

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Disappointment, Self, People

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• My dear, if heaven is truly a place, then it is situated in your heart, that special place, that was reserved for me.

  Michael Bassey

  Heart, Heaven, Dear

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• Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

  Tim Crouch

  Art, Theatre, Objective Truth

  "Diary of An Oak Tree: part 2" by Tim Crouch, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's the fact that philosophy is of general interest that, paradoxically, keeps philosophers from wanting to speak in a way that's accessible to the general public.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Littles, Way

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.

  Christofer Drew

  Weed, Hurt, Believe

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Feel Better, People

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. The world is a complex an many-sided thing.

  Paul Feyerabend

  World, Branches, Trends

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• I know that sounds arrogant, but you can't not be special and have a 30-year career.

  Charlie Sheen

  Years, Careers, Sound

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they can't do what the others can do, and they're happy to be placed in a protected school. It depends on their personalities.

  Gotz Aly

  Children, School, Personality

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• It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

  Kellee Stewart

  Life Is, Changed, Whole Life

  "Kellee Stewart: The My Boys Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 7, 2008.

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• To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.

  Heidi Klum

  Memories, Creating, Kind

  "Heidi Klum on Why She's So Happy!". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2011.

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• It was special with me being from Memphis and knowing the history of the venue, knowing all of the artists who performed in the Orpheum before me. Even having the idea to approach it was ambitious on my part, but I thought they would turn me down at first.

  Yo Gotti

  Artist, Ideas, Knowing

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• Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

  Myles Munroe

  Thinking, People, Leadership Potential

  Source: encomium.ng

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• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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• My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dream, Children, Halloween

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• My dream is to make the world's scariest PG movie. Because I feel that if you can do that, then you've done something special.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dream, Done, World

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• Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

  Ralph Lauren

  Children, Car, Identity

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Peace, Memories, Flower

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• Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

  Bill Gates

  Disease, Polio

  "Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing People To Stop Him" by Michael Kelley, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Women, Custodians

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Knowing, Secret

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Giving Up, Home, Holiday

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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