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"You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again."
"Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself."
"For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like."
"Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions."
"People do business with people who make them feel special."
"You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win."
"The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform."
"The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it."
"Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization."
"Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom"
"Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study."
"The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end."
"Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience."
"But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't."
"When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something"
"Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you."
"Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening."
"Let love shine and we will find a way to come together."
