#exception

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#concern #deserve #exceptional #his #home

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#business #exception #i #made #most

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. ↗

— Charles Osgood

#exception #exceptions #likes #rule

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention. ↗

— Ville Valo

#attention #break #doing #enough #exceptions

Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare. ↗

— Nick Tosches

#humility #men #experience

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#detail #exceptional #focused #mindset #must

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#any #been #exception #great #great thing