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• What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Debauchery, Madness

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan

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• What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

  Mehmet Oz

  Eye, Doctors, Years

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

  Fred Rogers

  Important, Discovering, Persons

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• My specialty is detached malevolence.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Malevolence, Detached

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• My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

  Michael Scott

  Self, Interesting, Groups

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

  Johnny Evers

  Careers, Hitting, Made

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• When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Home, Italian

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Ideas, People

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• The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Simple, Space

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.28, Tor Books

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• I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Medicine, Doctors, Practice

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

  Dee Wallace

  Powerful, Block, Being Free

  "A Conversation With Dee Wallace". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

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• Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

  Agatha Christie

  Tea, Cups, Said

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage”

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• Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  People, Hatred, World

  Interview, 1985.

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• Failure is my specialty.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2017

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• It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.

  Abram Hoffer

  Years, Medicine, Physicians

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• I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

  Primo Levi

  Libertine

  Primo Levi (1987). “The Wrench”

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• The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of the sessions. Matt handed us the chord charts and, with less than 5 minutes of practice, we were playing it live. I fell in love with this song immediately. You can't hear the message of God's sufficient grace too many times. Matt is a great lead worshiper and is a part of Life Teen, a growing worship movement in the Catholic Church.

  Chris Tomlin

  Song, Practice, Catholic

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• Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

  Chellie Pingree

  Vegetables, Crops, Ask Me

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• I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dancing, Acrobatics

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• This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Teaching, Passion

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Real, Book, Scary

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• I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

  Robert Toth

  Math, Paint, Like Me

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• I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

  G-Dragon

  Rap, Imitating Others, Matter

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