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Diana Ross Singer
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"I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party."

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Bennie Thompson Politician
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"Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."

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Chad Smith Musician
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"Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I just go where I'm sent and I do what I'm told. I listen to the highest voices within me. I don't feel the least bit courageous. I don't feel like I deserve any medals. I don't feel that I'm any more special than anybody else who's out there."

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Randy Bachman Musician, Songwriter
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"I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it."

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Robert Henri Artist
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"Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said."

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"This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways."

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