"Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies."
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"I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving."
"You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go."
"The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it."
"Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful."
"Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber."
"Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness."
"Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth."
"What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'."
"The excitement that comes with walking a Victoria's Secret show is simply unique, so walking out my third show wearing my TWA was one the sexiest moments of my career so far!"
"Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare."
"I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible."
"To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique."
"Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry."
"Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey."
"The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum."
"The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World."
"At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else."
"In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel."
"Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!"