Something Special Quotes - Page 10

• I want to be great, something special.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Special, Want

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• I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Mcdonalds, People, Guy

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• My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Special, Share

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

  Justin Verlander

  Player, Thinking, Special

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• I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Smart, School

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Holiday

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.

  Lauren Jackson

  Special, Female, Want

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• We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

  Frederick Lewis Allen

  Thinking, Special, Culture

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• I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

  Avery Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Nba

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

  Ani DiFranco

  Special, May

  Song: Brief Bus Stop, Album: Not So Soft

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• The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Light, Special

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.21, Rodale

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• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Years

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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Self Harm

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

  Gayle Forman

  Vacation, Special, Hey

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.109, Penguin

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• Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Thinking, Special

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• We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, Secret, Special

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• Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Past, People, Special

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good. I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be the same girl if she did.

  Maya Banks

  Girl, Heart, Men

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• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  Irrfan Khan

  Hollywood Films, Special, Hollywood

  "No rules in Bollywood: Irrfan Khan". Interview with Purva Desai, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 24, 2013.

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• At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Special, Passionate, Actors

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• I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

  Cliff Lee

  Thinking, Winning, Player

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