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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

Another, Few, Unhappy

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber

Long, Before, Died

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Martin Scorsese

Experience, Working, Creative

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton

Time, Different, Story

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Important, Woman, Decide

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
Suze Orman

Car, Important, Cannot

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
Henry Louis Gates

Small, Often, Number

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
R. Lee Ermey

Time, Between, Off

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam Smith

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
J. Michael Straczynski

Religion, Science, Why

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez

Violence, Requires, Militancy

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
Leon Trotsky

Nothing, Last, Quite

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
Linus Torvalds

Important, Whether, Company

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John

Legal, Mean, Write

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Marc Andreessen

Next, Expect, Software

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James

Women, Men, Others

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.
Amanda Seyfried

Someone, Possible, Share

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Fact, Court, Sits

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Woman, Thought, Sometimes

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Alone, Enjoy, High

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
David Suzuki

Social, Approach, Failed

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Law

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
Murray Gell-Mann

History, Old, Whole

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.
Carrie Underwood

Home, Far, Dangerous

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

Heart, Law, Compels

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Brett Favre

True, Before, Said

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
Jonathan Kozol

Great, Experience, Children

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
James Taylor

Experience, Rain, Fire

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.
Gus Van Sant

Music, Good, Before

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
Gus Van Sant

Made, Film, Quality

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