A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
I always tell young people in particular, "Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s, or '60s, or '70s. "
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.
If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to know him as much as I could, but because it was much more about his relationship to this particular situation, to The Guardian, to Laura Poitras, and to Ewen MacAskill, and Edward Snowden, I was able to really learn a lot about him from reading his book and reading his many articles and accounts of that time.
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.
Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.
It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities. ' Bravo!
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer's role is to be a truth sayer. I sincerely believe that each society, each country lives by a particular fantasy vision, a fantasy vision of itself. The truth of how they live is hardly ever faced.