Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special"
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Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else."
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"It is the special province of music to move the heart."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don't care at all."
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"There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world."
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"But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?"
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"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double."
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"I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me."
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"All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing."
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"Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table."
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"Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time."
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"In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section."
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"If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything."
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"Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets."
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"That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special."
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"There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you."
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"The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax."
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"Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found."
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"I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!"
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"Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do."
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"Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference."
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"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
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"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
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