#specific

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#because #ends #habits #i #interesting

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#circumstances #concentration #democracy #executive #executive power

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. ↗

— Tom C. Clark

#city #court #crime #day #defendant

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ↗

— Chuck Close

#about #discovered #dots #fewer #give

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#discipline #example #exceptional #for example #i

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#development #how #i #me #moments

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#definitely #doing #feature #feature film #film

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#i #i love #indian #indian music #love