#specific

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#business #dinner #having #house #i

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#adopt #american #american accent #british #certainly

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#few #frequent #general #hypothesis #instances

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#appeal #become #domestic #dubious #gained

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#about #composer #copland #felt #had

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clothing #first #him #hotel #never

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#been #i #i always #i see #life