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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -- Lorraine Hansberry
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. -- Lance Morrow
Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. -- John Eliot
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. -- Giorgio Armani
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. -- Stella Young
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. -- Vladimir Putin
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
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. -- Jean Houston
Exceptional people deserve special concessions. -- Jenny Holzer
Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities -- Doug Berry
Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes, -- Carol S. Dweck
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. -- Arthur Erickson
If everyone were Extraordinary, no one would be Exceptional. -- TA Guimont
Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional' -- Paul Craig Roberts
Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity! -- Brian Tracy
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. -- Erica Jong
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. -- Edouard Manet
Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do. -- Wes Fesler
There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. -- Saint Ignatius
Exceptional is too understated for you. I'll have to search for a better word. (Carlos) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on. -- Geoffrey Boycott
Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. -- Peter Thomas
Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating. -- Robert Walser
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. -- Joshua Foer
In Beverly Hills, it's very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the space and the quality of life in Beverly Hills is exceptional. -- Lisa Vanderpump
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. -- Franz Beckenbauer
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive. -- Paul Stamets
...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard.LIVER. Good one.Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?Life Invasion. Like it.Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport.Doesn't that spell OLIVER? -- Shannon Hale
...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard.""LIVER. Good one.""Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?""Life Invasion. Like it.""Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport.""Doesn't that spell OLIVER?" -- Shannon Hale
...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER? -- Shannon Hale
American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth? -- Gerald Celente
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
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star! -- Craig Charles
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. -- Bryan Adams
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Either you run the day or the day runs you. -- Jim Rohn
An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices. -- Robin Sharma
An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. -- Richard Branson
One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. -- Jonathan Ive
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. -- Jim Rohn
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -- Jim Rohn
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. -- John C. Maxwell
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. -- David McCullough
The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. -- Thornton Wilder
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom -- Jim Rohn
I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional. -- Charlotte Casiraghi
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that. -- Dale Carnegie
Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. -- Mike Huckabee
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people. -- Bat for Lashes
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts. -- Jack Kornfield
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold. -- Dan Winters
There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail. -- Ron Ben-Israel
I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great. -- Stephen Amell
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves. -- Rudy Giuliani
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms. -- Ban Ki-moon
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy! -- Suzanne Brockmann
Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too. -- Nick Cave
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Quite or be exceptional. Average is for losers. -- Seth Godin
It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight. -- Jenny Nimmo
When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional. -- Paul Greengrass
In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts. -- Maud Adams
I'm exceptional at taking my foot out of my mouth. -- Priscilla Glenn
I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself. -- Alan Sugar
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. -- Walter Isaacson
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me. -- Irene Rosenfeld
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity. -- Pierre Bourdieu
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature. -- Janet Evanovich
With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. -- James K. Polk
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. -- Robert Vaughn
I know now-I think I probably already knew then- that all lives are exceptional. -- José Eduardo Agualusa
He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip. -- Stephanie Kallos
You all right now?I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me. -- Kathy Reichs
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. -- Garry Kasparov
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. -- James Jeans
The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well. -- Julian Barnes
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing exceptional was ever accomplished without positive mental attitude,enthusiasm, hard work, perseverance and monitoring . -- David Gyimah Boadi
It's commonplace to nitpick on minor faults. But it's exceptional to correct them through enlargement. -- Bauvard
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion. -- Monica Crowley
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. -- John Sexton
I make extra-ordinary impact! I effect exceptional changes; I am not ordinary;I make a SUCCESS -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. -- Lynn Johnston
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. -- Christopher Meloni
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush. -- Eric Liu
As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment. -- Michael Owen
For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not. -- Lionel Shriver
Here, you are exceptional...There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do. -- Rachel Caine
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades. -- Cameron Mackintosh
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome
He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... -- Walter Pater
A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent. -- G.K. Chesterton
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. -- Michael Cunningham
His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. -- Tennessee Williams
Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center. -- Jon Landau
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. -- Monica Crowley
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. -- E. L. Doctorow
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. -- Russ Feingold
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. -- Susan Orlean
To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. -- Salman Rushdie
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. -- David Rockefeller
There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive. -- Fritz Leiber
...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional. -- Eoin Colfer
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. -- Caroline Rhea
A pro does as well as he can within whathe has set out to doand a madmandoes exceptionally well at whathe can't helpdoing. -- Charles Bukowski
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. -- Donald Tusk

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