#special

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ↗

— William Feather

#am #claim #deed #done #good

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#arctic #budget #debate #discussion #drill

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#breed #dreamed #estimation #fiction #fiction writers

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#amplify #audience #broader #comedians #especially

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#become #blur #caught #celebrity #easily

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better. ↗

— Alton Brown

#back #better #eats #entertainment #especially

Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#connection #country #difficulties #each #emotional

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away. ↗

— Bob Graham

#away #being #compromised #equipment #franks

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#different #different angles #especially #good #iranian

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger. ↗

— Bill Budge

#because #bells #bells and whistles #bigger #effects