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  • You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 -- George W. Bush
  • Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
  • It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. -- Eric Hoffer
  • There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator. -- Maria Semple
  • I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique. -- Dave Brat
  • In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American. -- Shawn Amos
  • Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did. -- Pharrell Williams
  • Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. -- Johan Huizinga
  • Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide. -- Henry Louis Gates
  • My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me. -- John Thorn
  • As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. -- Lewis Thomas
  • I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation. -- T. D. Jakes
  • In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people. -- Thurston Clarke
  • Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? -- Elizabeth Janeway
  • The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul. -- Charles Handy
  • On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity. -- April Gornik
  • Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is. -- Wayne Dyer
  • Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. -- J. K. Rowling
  • If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. -- Josephine Baker
  • Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. -- Bill Gates
  • There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration. -- Thomas Frank
  • When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together. -- Charlie Crist
  • Books are a uniquely portable magic. -- Stephen King
  • Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. -- Benedetto Croce
  • Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • Explore the colours.Each colour is uniquely beautiful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. -- Julie Burchill
  • It is your choices that make you uniquely you.... -- Walter Inglis Anderson
  • I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American. -- Keith Carradine
  • There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood, -- Matt Stone
  • Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely. -- Jim Rohn
  • Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. -- Hannah Arendt
  • It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different. -- Jai Rodriguez
  • There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood. -- Matt Stone
  • a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives. -- Georgette Leblanc
  • Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. -- Oliver Sacks
  • The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. -- Russell Simmons
  • We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
  • Dig deep and empower yourself today. Stand in your inner strength. Be uniquely you. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
  • I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. -- Len Wein
  • Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. -- Bruce Lee
  • Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you. -- Rich Nathan
  • Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina. -- Dahlia Lithwick
  • I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S. -- Roseanne Barr
  • God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose. -- Valorie Burton
  • In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned. -- Kevin B. Rollins
  • Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own. -- Cassandra Clare
  • For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me. -- Leonard Nimoy
  • The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world! -- Mark Steyn
  • Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. -- David Rolf
  • Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins -- Nancy S. Mure
  • Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend. -- Billy Graham
  • The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. -- Andrew Weil
  • Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins -- Nancy S. Mure
  • I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed -- Dan Quayle
  • In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
  • If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God -- J. Sidlow Baxter
  • God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so. -- Joyce Meyer
  • Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you -- Walt Disney
  • Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. -- Robert Motherwell
  • Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. -- Dahlia Lithwick
  • Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. -- Dave Eggers
  • In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be. -- Robert Fritz
  • Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you. -- Tony Dungy
  • There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine. -- Jeff Dunham
  • Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose." -- Gerald M. Levin
  • When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. -- Albert Einstein
  • If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason. -- Queen Latifah
  • Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. -- Hannah Arendt
  • Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian. -- Alan Feduccia
  • Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought. -- Tim LaHaye
  • Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give. -- Robert D. Hales
  • This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. -- Christina Baldwin
  • Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him." -- Dick Van Dyke
  • There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. -- Andy Wachowski
  • The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. -- Richard Price
  • Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. -- Dick Van Dyke
  • One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here -- Oprah Winfrey
  • The franchisees are uniquely in touch at the local level. They see what's going on in their communities in a way we couldn't ever imagine. -- Fred DeLuca
  • America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market. -- Michael Porter
  • What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. -- Robert Breault
  • Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else. -- Frederick H. Evans
  • Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. -- Paul de Man
  • The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it. -- Harold S. Kushner
  • I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it. -- Jody Lynn Nye
  • Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return. -- Mark Noll
  • There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. -- Nathaniel Branden
  • To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question. -- David Bayles
  • Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole. -- Clifton Fadiman
  • While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today are of course uniquely qualified to comment on their own time. -- Michael Hersch
  • Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit. -- Dov Davidoff
  • As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. -- John Stossel
  • It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
  • When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort). -- Ron Kaufman
  • There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it. -- Dean Cain
  • This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it. -- Robert Sean Leonard
  • We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.... -- Suzy Welch
  • For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure. -- Sara Sheridan
  • [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood. -- Angela Carter
  • My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours. -- Barbara Corcoran
  • I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us. -- John Guare
  • They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences. -- James G. March
  • If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own. -- Dhani Jones
  • I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us. -- Carrie Snodgress
  • The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time. -- William P. Young
  • When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. -- Florence King
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