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I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best. — Sean Lennon

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one. — Paul Wardingham

3. When the behavior changes occur in relation to a specific topic or question, that tells the lie catcher this could be a hot area to explore. — Paul Ekman

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming. — Shyam Selvadurai

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. — Arthur Hertzberg

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful. — Jim Nussle

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing. — Cynthia Lord

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. — Diane Arbus

At any specific stage of your life, you are certain about few things which when passes over the time to be something uncertain and vice versa. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power. — David Wilkerson

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin

Would ectoplasm be considered an amenity? As I have said, I personally define an amenity as a specific and unexpected add-on to the hotel experience. — Rick Moody

Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain. — Hassan Osman

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific. — Bill Bruford

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. — Paul Auster

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents. — Alain De Botton

Never be jealous of anyone.
You are special with unique talents for a specific mission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana

I don't think there should be apps specific to a tablet ... if someone makes an ICS app it's going to run on phones and it's going to run on tablets. — Andy Rubin

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. — C.S. Lewis

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific. — Seth Godin

God created you to be in the world.
You are in the world to fulfil a specific mission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. — George Santayana

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal. — Will Smith

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship. — Penn Jillette

I'd rather be hurt all at once for a specific reason, than be hurt slowly every day.
Ashlyn — Kendall Ryan

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. — Leon Panetta

Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!' — Zach Galifianakis

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." - L. Sprague de Camp — Robert A. Heinlein

To be a cocksucker is to be oriented towards a specific gender. — Rictor Norton

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin — E.C. Sheedy

Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging. — Simon Mainwaring

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. — Ridley Scott

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them. — Patrick Ness

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective. — Jeremy Corbyn

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth. — Caroline Leavitt

Is there something wrong with you? Mentally?
Darlin', you met my family. You've gotta be more specific than that.
(Jess to Smitty) — Shelly Laurenston

Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good. — William T. Vollmann

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech. — Herbert Spencer

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle.

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there. — Justin Vernon

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done. — Arthur Kornberg

I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific. — Scott Frost

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good. — Christina Hendricks

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time. — Gregg Braden

Make the most of prayer ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose. — Charles Spurgeon

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. — Georg Simmel

I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on. — Becky G

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. — W. Somerset Maugham

I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in. — Jonathan Meades

I write a note and tape it to my window
I'M NOT A DETECTIVE.
BE SPECIFIC! — Lisa Schroeder

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn — Arthur Conan Doyle

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that. — Romola Garai

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific. — Cate Blanchett

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific — Claude C. Hopkins

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. — Herbert Spencer

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists. — Ted Koppel

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique. — Rachelle Lefevre

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications. — Tom Hiddleston

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul, — Steven Pressfield

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies. — Stephen Pagliuca

What's wrong with you?" Simon demanded. "Saying 'don't panic' is guaranteed to make everyone panic! Be specific about the problem. — Cassandra Clare

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life. — Jason Robert Brown

You are always where you are meant to be at any specific moment in time. — Steven Redhead

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear. — Lynn Collins

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case. — John Fund

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

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text. — Bong Joon-ho

I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel. — Trudi Canavan

I had nothing to do, nowhere specific to be and no pressing crowds to spoil my mood. — A.M. Harding

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise. — Benjamin Graham

When there is no specific task, the human's subconscious mind will be in a passive state — Sunday Adelaja

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. — James Hilton

Be specific in your prayer requests of GOD. — Benny Hinn

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates

Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being? This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters. — Deyth Banger

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole. — Harold Rosenberg

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions
everyone can and should be innovative. — Paul McDonald

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. — Andrea Leadsom

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes. — Robert Pattinson

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give. — Christian Louboutin

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America. — Isabel Lucas

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific
state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success. — Alan Watts

You will notice that there may be specific times of day or even situations where your spiritual information will flow to you most easily. — Catherine Carrigan

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day. — Albert Einstein

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. — Zig Ziglar

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. — Jim Bakker

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests. — Jeff Koons

I realized that moderate amounts of stress, when directed or funneled in specific directions, could be both beneficial and practical. — Gudjon Bergmann

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. — Timothy Leary