Wordgrove Post & Review

This Edition: rare

Quoted In The Grove:
It’s a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society ‒ in many ways ‒ tells us that suffering is wrong. If it’s our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we’re taught to put them away somewhere so we don’t have to see it.
~Sharon Salzberg

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~Tom Wolfe

You know, the standard state for people is ‘mildly pleasant.’ Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they’re mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time ‒ but mostly they’re mildly pleased.
~Daniel Kahneman

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Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
~Ben Okri

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Prompt for sometime Soon: worth

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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
~Baruch Spinoza

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.
~Og Mandino

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Honest communication is a rare thing.
~Taylor Sheridan

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
~Josh Billings

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
~Stephen Vincent Benet

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
~Emily Dickinson

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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
~Benoit Mandelbrot

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~Gaston Bachelard

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In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger – a thought, idea, line, plot device – anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It’s like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They’re also very rare.
~Jasper Fforde

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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
~Michel de Montaigne

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When you want to get your way, simply try being mannerly. It’s become so rare nowadays that it disarms people. It throws them off balance. Don’t think of it as merely being nice; rather, consider it civil war.
~Joseph Kita

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If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
~Charles Caleb Colton

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When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
~Cate Blanchett

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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
~A N Wilson

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
~Arnold Palmer

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
~Bob Wells

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
~S Jay Olshansky

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If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people including me ‒ ‒would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
~Hunter S Thompson

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
~Charles Lamb

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It’s very rare that publications double their frequency.
~James Daly

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
~Hunter S Thompson

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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
~Arthur Miller

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
~William Hague

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Posted From The Grove

On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad’s small gravel-and-sand operation.
~Carol Loomis

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
~Cal Thomas

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I’ve been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get – to serve their government and their people at this level.
~Marco Rubio

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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
~Gaylord Nelson

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~Paul Wellstone

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To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
~George Tenet

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~Albert Einstein

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In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.
~Raymond Kethledge

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
~Charles Schumer

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
~Pat Brown

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It’s rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
~Mark McKinnon

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It’s no rare thing for the Israeli prime minister to enrage the Jews of the diaspora.
~Bari Weiss

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
~Shimon Peres

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
~Winston Churchill

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
~E F Benson

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
~Jonathan Sacks

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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s remarkably rare.
~Daniel Ellsberg

It is curious — curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
~Mark Twain

Valor is common but great souls are rare.
~Bernard Joseph Saurin

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
~Victor Hugo

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

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True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
~Henry Williamson

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Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
~Alexander Hamilton

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction ‒ like, in ‘Invisible Man’ there’s the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
~Matthew Desmond

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
~James Baldwin

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
~Victor Hugo

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I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’
~David Byrne

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
~Harper Lee

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
~William Henry Moody

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
~Honoré de Balzac

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it’s rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
~Matthew Lesko

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Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.
~Michelle Alexander

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It’s frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
~Bruce Schneier

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
~Konrad Adenauer

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In most of history, societies have not been free. It’s a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
~Michael Novak

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression – we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
~Daniel Lubetzky

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.
~Robert Darnton

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I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don’t always feel
comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.
~Emily Rios

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Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important as parliamentary debate. Both must coexist.
~Arun Jaitley

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Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive… And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice.
~Andrew Solomon

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While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.
~Steve Largent

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Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it’s easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
~Phil Klay

It’s a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who’s against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They’ve tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn’t support any of that.
~Katha Pollitt

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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
~Iggy Pop

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it’s still worth the fight.
~Salma Hayek

I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
~Howard Nemerov

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
~Anthony Burgess

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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~Douglas Adams

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~Rare Breed: The Future Belongs to the Rare Breed (4:08) the quest for unique identity has an answer…

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~Joel Sartore: RARE (2:01) species rare and threatened, the loss of beauty

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~Jason Wu: Rare (0:38) 1/2 minute of exotic, texture featured images

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~benivg7eco: 60 Minutes • Steve Jobs rare Interview (5:43) why we remember, a reminder of our loss

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~Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg: Dissonance (2:12) weird enough to be rare

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~Weekends Creative: Rare Earth (0:57) dusted beauty, some nudity, a commercial

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Germany’s hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.
~Luke Harding

I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.
~Katharine Graham (Washington Post)

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
~Dee Hock

Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
~Tadashi Yanai

If you ever catch a great boss, it’s just such a rare thing, and it’s amazing.
~James L Brooks

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The older I get, I realize, ‘Man, I’m a very rare bird,’ and that’s not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
~Brian Stokes Mitchell

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
~Michael Eisner

Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you’re going to do exactly what you say you’re going to do.
~John W Rogers, Jr

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It’s a rare business that doesn’t have a way worse future than it has a past.
~Charlie Munger

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
~David Ogilvy

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Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
~Andrew Ross Sorkin

So it’s rare if I go to a city and don’t shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.
~Westside Gunn

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We have an odd culinary relationship with tinned food. In higher society, rare and supposedly exquisite goods such as tinned baby octopus, foie gras and caviar come in beautifully crafted, artistically designed tins.
~Jack Monroe

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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
~Robert Fripp

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Deep learning is a very capital-intensive area, and it’s rare to find a company with both the necessary resources and a company structure where things can get done without having to pass through too many channels and committee meetings.
~Andrew Ng

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Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It’s really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
~Christopher Voss

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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
~Benjamin N Cardozo

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Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.
~Mo Ibrahim

It’s rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It’s rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level ‒ I want to repeat this, at the trading level ‒ can speak English, either.
~Shiv Nadar

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I’m not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I’m terribly uncomfortable.
~Scott Adams

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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I actually had someone say to me, ‘Lynn, you’re going to have very good days, and you’re going to have very bad days. But It’s rare that things are as good as they look, and it’s rare that things are as bad as they seem.’ So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.
~Lynn Good

It’s really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.
~Aesop Rock

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The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it’s approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn’t true.
~Jeremy Grantham

One thing I’ve noticed about history ‒ you can search on newspapers going back hundreds of years, search for ‘economic forecast,’ you don’t find it. It would be very rare to find it.
~Robert J Shiller

Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It’s very rare that there is something that’s actually financial innovation. It’s a euphemism for hiding leverage.
~Steve Eisman

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I would say if you do have ambitions, don’t just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
~David Mackay

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.
~Noreena Hertz

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Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called ‘unicorns’ because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
~Jay Samit

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
~Felix Adler

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They are the two most beautiful words in the language of baseball — game seven. Game seven is a rare songbird. And as fickle as the autumn wind. The bounce of a ball, the slip of a pitch, the swing of a bat. Glory or gloom, in perpetuity, at every turn.
~Tom Verducci [a little altered tg]

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
~Peter Tork

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In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
~Alex Ferguson

It’s rare enough as an older generation player that you’re 100% fit – there’s always something niggling.
~Brian O’Driscoll

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When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that’s very rare air.
~Urban Meyer

It’s rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.
~Robin Zander

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Booing – I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it’s rare.
~Alexander Zverev

I remember every defeat I suffered as an amateur. They were rare enough to be burned into my brain, and that’s why I can’t bear the thought of losing.
~Joe Calzaghe

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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It’s really rare when the favorites win.
~Ted Ligety

Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We’re not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they’re Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.
~Cain Velasquez

It wasn’t until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women’s World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.
~Alex Morgan

It’s rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold’em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That’s one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.
~Daniel Negreanu

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Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It’s very rare that I play a game where I’m like, ‘Wow, this is really interesting. There were so many possibilities! It was such a rich game.’
~Hikaru Nakamura

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I’ve chosen a career that’s quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it’s outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I’m so grateful for that every day.
~Annaleigh Ashford

It’s very rare, as an actor, to be someplace ‒ to have an address, so to speak.
~Yvette Nicole Brown

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Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.
~Robert Hilburn

Simplicity ‒ that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper… And that’s it ‒ simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.
~Johnny Depp

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It’s a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it’s not even that you feel that you’re gonna do a good job, it’s that you feel like you’ve found it. It fits, it’s natural; it’s like putting on a good shoe or something.
~Fran Kranz

It’s so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.
~Juno Temple

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don’t get released, is the fact.
~Ian Mckellen

To even be a working entertainer in Hollywood is such a rare privilege.
~Cole Sprouse

It’s rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
~Stephen Gaghan

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Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves ‒ which is very rare.
~Richard C Armitage

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
~Tim Roth

It’s rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.
~Matt Bomer

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Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory – these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
~Hale Appleman

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It’s really rare in TV not to think, ‘Well, I’ve seen a version of this before.’
~Gemma Chan

It’s very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.
~Malik Yoba

When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.
~Jazz Jennings

It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent.
~Heath Ledger

It’s quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.
~Wes Craven

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
~Rowan Atkinson

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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
~George Pierce Baker

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird…
~Jenna Elfman

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It’s really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
~Omari Hardwick

It’s very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it’s different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.
~Dove Cameron

After all the work I’ve done, I feel like I’m something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.
~Charlie Hunnam

It’s so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That’s what I look for in any role.
~Chris Pine

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As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
~Vincent Piazza

It’s very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
~Tony Hale

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Ideally, you have a company of actors who care more about the product than they do about themselves. In my experience, actors who believe the opposite ‒ that they are the people who matter rather than the show ‒ are rare in the extreme.
~Christopher Timothy

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
~Ethan Hawke

It’s rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.
~Amber Heard

I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It’s rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.
~Ben Howard

At some point, you’re just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it’s just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
~Matt McGorry

I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it’s rare that they are egotistical.
~Ruth Bradley

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Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it’s rare.
~Dylan McDermott

It’s increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.
~Julia Roberts

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It’s very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don’t know.
~Viggo Mortensen

That’s something that’s really rare and special and what any actor would love ‒ to have somebody that’s specifically writing for you.
~Jon Tenney

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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like ‘Down to the Bone,’ you have the opportunity to be of service.
~Vera Farmiga

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
~Kathryn Bigelow

It’s the rare book that’s able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
~Bret Easton Ellis

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It’s very rare that you get a that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
~Kevin Hart

It’s really rare for film s to be that interested in things other than themselves.
~Alan Cumming

It’s very rare, in a movie franchise, where you have the same creative team behind the camera and in front of the camera, pretty much, for the entire growth of the franchise.
~Paul W S Anderson

I don’t think there’s any show that really escapes it: It’s very rare that a creative producer stays with the show. As soon as the producer leaves, they cut the budget.
~Edward Albert

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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
~Xavier Dolan

I rarely see one of the ‘summer blockbuster’ movies. I’d like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
~Christopher Meloni

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So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it’s very rare that you see it private.
~Ang Lee

It’s rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
~Stephen Hopkins

When you see a finished film, it’s very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
~Matthew Goode

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It’s quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn’t loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It’s unique to theatre. It’s a quality I never want to see diminished.
~Tim Crouch

It’s such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There’s nothing quite like it.
~Jefferson Mays

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Finding yourself on a show that’s appreciated by its intended audience is a very rare and lucky thing, so when you win the lottery like that, you don’t want to rush its conclusion; you want to keep it going as long as you can.
~Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad)

Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.
~David L Wolper

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I feel like it’s extremely rare to find a female who’s bisexual and not either lesbian or straight on television shows.
~Madelaine Petsch

She’s a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn’t apologize for it. It’s just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.
~Katherine Moennig

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That’s so rare in the world of TV or film to have a genuine friendship turn into something that people watch, that people relate to. That’s so unique.
~Carrie Brownstein

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we’ll just go back to one.
~Jason Bateman

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It’s very rare that I see the end of any show.
~Brad Goreski

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~Stefan Stuckert: Medium Rare (1:00) viewer supplies the story line

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~Bronson Aznavorian: Rare (7:57) coming out to Mom… as a werewolf

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~Omeleto: Julian (6:58) affectionately weird and rare

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~Omeleto: Tapes (9:55) …because family

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Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
~Jonathan Kozol

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~Sidney Hook

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Thought is a strenuous art ‒ few practice it, and then only at rare times.
~David Ben-Gurion

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
~Daniel Kahneman

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~Edward Thorndike

The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. Among children it is very common, and grows naturally out of the period of make-believe and fancy. It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education. Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth…
~Bertrand Russell

My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of ‒ the Western canon is here, and it’s gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.
~Daniel Mallory Ortberg

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.
~William Joyce

Great teaching ‒ just plain old knock ’em dead, get it right, make ’em laugh, make ’em wonder instruction ‒ is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
~Robert Krulwich

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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
~Oliver Tambo

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn’t want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit – I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.
~Mindy Kaling

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear us apart, and put us back together. We are our stories.
~Mena Massoud

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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~Anne Sullivan

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When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.
~Shashi Tharoor

Find me someone who is Nigerian who is always on time for things that aren’t work-related, and I will find you a Tyrese quote that makes perfect sense. They might exist, but they sure are rare.
~Luvvie Ajayi

The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it’s one of the rare examples where they’ve preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.
~Michael Winter

Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that’s a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.
~Taylor Momsen

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, ‘Wow, this is really a different country.’ I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.
~Naomi Klein

Travelling expands the mind rarely.
~Hans Christian Andersen

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I am a huge Prince fan… Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I’ve been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
~Jill Scott

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
~Billie Eilish

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
~Kate Christensen

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I have my dream job. If I was seven years old and you asked me what I’d want to be 30 years from now, I’d say exactly who I am. So, ‘rare’ and ‘lucky’ are the exact right words. It took a lot of hard work, and I took a weird route to get here, but man, am I grateful for it.
~Tom King (comic books, ex-CIA)

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
~Andrew Wiles

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I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis, I mean personalities.
~YoungBoy Never Broke Again

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it ‒ basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
~Charles Bukowski

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I know it when I don’t know it. Sometimes I know it when I don’t think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.
~Rush Limbaugh

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.
~Harry Reid

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
~Thomas W Higginson

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One of the things I pride myself on is that I don’t cuss. It’s extremely rare, but when I do it kind of adds to the character.
~Dr Disrespect

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost & every woman has a dash of madness, & the combinations of society continually detect it. See how many experiments at the perfect man. One thousand million, they say, is the population of the globe. So many experiments then. Well a few times in history a well mixed character transpires. Look in the hundreds of persons that each of us knows. Only a few whom we regard with great complacency, a few sanities.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
~Karen Horney

It’s rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you’ve never seen before, good or bad.
~Matt Lauer

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I love being a redhead. It’s a rare thing, so I think there’s a bond between redheads.
~Laura Prepon

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Bob Rock taught me a lot. His friendship has taught me a lot about what you should expect from a recording session and, more importantly, how you shouldn’t expect anything less than absolute joyousness. You should feel great. You should feel 14 to be doing it. It’s true and it’s rare.
~Gord Downie

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy ‒ our capacity to delight in one another and in the world ‒ is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that.
~Giles Andreae

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My hair is purple, and unicorns mean a lot to me. They’re unique, rare, majestic, and beautiful, and I think those are some things that I embody. I wasn’t always confident, and so once I gained my confidence, I was like, ‘I’m a unicorn, and I don’t care what anybody says.’ My fans are unicorns, too. I like to call them my ‘unicorn nation.’
~Justine Skye

As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it’s rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.
~Janet Mock

Finding out about Bjork was like finding out about some rare and magical thing that I had never encountered living where I was living at the time, being surrounded by the people I was surrounded by.
~Kerli

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.
~Virginia Postrel

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
~Margaret Thatcher

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
~Keith Henson

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I have ‘Very Rare’ tatted on my face.
~Ski Mask the Slump

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
~Francesca Annis

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§ MUSIC:

When I play, I’m so in the moment that I can’t really remember what happened afterwards. It’s a rare experience for a thinking person like me.
~Lykke Li

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
~Terry Riley

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I’m one of those rare breed of rock n’ rollers with a brain, probably because the brain’s still intact.
~Suzi Quatro

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God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
~Marcello Giordani

If you try to do that in pop music ‒ to play only rare show tunes, for example ‒ people don’t come.
~Bobby Short

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Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it’s rare to find an artist who hasn’t been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today’s popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
~Marvin Sapp

Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.
~M Jayachandran

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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
~Brian Eno

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
~David Byrne

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United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was… to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn’t that amazing?
~John Astin

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It’s very rare ‒ and it does happen on occasion ‒ where I’ll take a piece of lyric and I’ll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.
~Geddy Lee

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Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that’s rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I’m interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.
~Johann Johannsson

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

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There have been occasions ‒ and I think it’s very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare ‒ that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.
~Jessye Norman

There can be moments onstage ‒ but sometimes in a movie, too ‒ where you just feel you’re in a golden space. You’re in this strange world where everything you do makes sense. And it’s funny: the audience is right in it with you, and the other actors, and you get these rare moments of feeling at one with something. You hear voices in your head.
~Matthew Broderick

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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world… Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
~Irving Penn

You can repeat things because it’s on a set and there are actors. But if it’s a great moment and you don’t capture it, it’s rare to get that moment again.
~Larry Charles

When I say ‘rare,’ it’s my own term. It’s like you’re doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one has ever seen before. #Rare means that it can only be seen here. It’s just a rare moment that I’m sharing with the world.
~Theophilus London

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency ‒ half tiger, half poet.
~Yehudi Menuhin (evidence)

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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people ‒ more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true ‒ in certain rare, isolated cases.
~Paul Auster

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they’re decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
~Hans Haacke

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
~Jerry Saltz

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
~Edward Ruscha

On the purple clusters,
On the peaches fair,
On the apples red and ripe,
On the melons rare,
Purple, red, russet and gold,
How many colors can the day hold?
~Ouina

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Dancing begins at the feet and progresses upwards. In some people it stops at the ankles… In others it reaches as far as to the hips… But the dancer who dances to the tips of her fingers and the top of her head: that is the perfect dancer; for dancing being a sort of pulsation of grace in the limbs which dance, the perfect dancer is all grace; and if she has, to boot, a touch of tragic passion in her, it will find instant and vivid expression in her dancing… she is the rarest of rare birds.
~Bernard Shaw

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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
~Aldous Huxley

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it’s rarely driving the car.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

My pregnancy craving is truffles. I like the smell and I like the way it tastes but they’re very very expensive, rare mushrooms.
~Maryse Mizanin

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A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just a minute or so per side, is the perfect addition to a savory plate of fried rice.
~Tom Douglas

To eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality.
~Roland Barthes

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It’s never about the screwup ‒ it’s always about the recovery. That’s the thing about it… if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put it on a sandwich.
~Tyler Florence

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The Grocers’! oh, the Grocers’! The blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, the raisins so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint.
~Charles Dickens [a little altered tg]

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Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is the rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
~Fran Lebowitz

It’s pretty rare for me to be someplace that serves hot dogs and not eat one.
~Joey Chestnut

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In those rare cases in which you have a dull knife and cooking to do, but no ceramic in sight, the top edge of a rolled-down car window will work just as well. Even a smooth stone or slab of concrete outside can work in a pinch.
~J Kenji Lopez-Alt

Lemon juice is good for everything.
~Ethel Pochocki

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There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I’m a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening – figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
~Gustav Klimt

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With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
~Lisa Marie Presley

I’m a bit of a bed head: I’m always running around with no make-up on and my hair in a mess, but my nails are one thing I do love to keep looking nice, so it’s rare to see me without it.
~Poppy Delevingne

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It’s very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.
~Suki Waterhouse

A black dress is beautiful! It’s a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it’s very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
~Olivier Theyskens

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I love color, so it’s rare to see me without at least a pop of a hot pink or bold red, even if it’s just a lip color pop!
~Brandi Rhodes

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
~Charles Jencks

It’s quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
~Abbey Lee Kershaw

I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That’s my fashion detox.
~Zac Posen

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The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves ‒ and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.
~Simon Van Booy

To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.
~Hubert de Givenchy

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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
~Homer

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
~Juvenal

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
~Jean Anouilh

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I don’t wish to be seen on television all the time. Instead, I prefer a five-minute appearance in a rare and challenging role for which I can be remembered for the next 50 years.
~Manini Mishra

I don’t have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
~Jack Nicholson

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn’t anyone on earth ‒ not you, not me, not the girl next door ‒ who wouldn’t like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.
~Sue Mengers (talent agent)

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can’t be that removed from technology.
~Taylor Sheridan

It’s very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It’s just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
~Taylor Lautner

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That’s a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
~Adrian Smith

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
~Charles Barkley

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Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
~Rem Koolhaas

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
~Arthur Erickson

Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~Margot Asquith

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Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality ‒ which indeed may be a rare achievement.
~Michael Leunig

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.
~Virginia Postrel

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I don’t collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, ‘I have a ’54 Strat worth $50,000.’ And I don’t collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman’s guitar and Johnny Cash’s guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn’t resist.
~David Crosby

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins ‒ rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.
~Robert Kiyosaki

You know you’re a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
~Adam Mansbach

Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There’s all this rare stuff that I’ve been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
~Mike D

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~Paper Swan: Twain • Rare Feeling (2:53) in troubadour voice

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~Selena Gomez: Rare (4:20) minimal, live, tasteful pop

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~Smurfstools Oldies: Rare Earth • I Just Want To Celebrate (2:56) …then give good reason to

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~Duubalin Hard: Gwen Stefani • Rare (3:55) midst the wiles of music and other distractions, note how dark eyes hold focus as the truest measure and feature of beauty

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My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.
~Nita Ambani

He’s just like my father that way‒my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John’s like that. He’s a very rare man, a very good man, and I’ve had a good life with him. I’m proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny’s fame.
~June Carter Cash

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
~Marie Corelli

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It might sound so stupid, but guys do not hit on me. I’m not really sure why, but it’s very rare that a guy will ever come up to me and be like, ‘I’m going to lay down my game right now, and you’re going to like it.’
~Jennifer Love Hewitt

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on.
~Howard Jacobson

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Why would it not be fair to the Book-Worm to concede him a Book-wife, who should understand and sympathize with him in his eccentricity, and who should care more for rare and beautiful books than for diamonds, laces, Easter bonnets and ten-button gloves?… A woman who has a true and wise sympathy with her husband’s book-buying is an adored object.
~Irving Browne

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
~Taylor Swift

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
~Emma Goldman

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it’s just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It’s rare, that special connection.
~Cherie Lunghi

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
~Gwendoline Christie

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.
~Angelina Jolie

It’s a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it’s rare that you’ll find two people who don’t try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.
~Peter Marino

… So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
~Harry Connick, Jr

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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain ‒ no matter what ‒ after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
~Kate Chopin

My interest in society ‒ at times so pronounced that the word ‘snob’ comes a little to mind ‒ derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
~Frank Crowninshield

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In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
~Otto Weininger

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~Alexandre Dumas

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
~Germaine Greer

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[A] woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable — these are epithets which, with rare exceptions, belong exclusively to a Wife…
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
~Bette Davis

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Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.
~Kameron Hurley

I think as a young actress, it’s very rare that you read something where you’re not either ‘the girl’ or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
~Sienna Miller

‘Kanaa‘ is a rare opportunity; it’s about women’s cricket, and they’ve trusted me with this film. I trained for nearly four hours every day with three coaches.
~Aishwarya Rajesh

It’s so rare to have an ensemble cast of women.
~Tessa Thompson

God It’s rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.
~Morena Baccarin

It’s so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.
~Emily Rose

It’s rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman’s success.
~Dana Fox

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I never played the ‘decoration,’ I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
~Tyne Daly

I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~Christina Aguilera

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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare ‒ changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time ‒ the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
~Alan Alda

It’s so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, ‘Oh, be in control of your feelings,’ and a woman is never allowed to express her anger without being demonised as being PMS-y.
~Petra Collins

It’s rare to meet somebody who’s secure with herself, confident in who they are, and doesn’t have anything to apologize for.
~Emily Ratajkowski

I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
~Kerry Bishe

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But you!—ah, you are tropical,
Your beauty is so rare;
Your eyes are clearer, deeper eyes
Than any, anywhere;
Mysterious, imperious,
Deliriously fair,
O listless Andalusian maid,
With bangles in your hair!
~James Whitcomb Riley

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
~Oscar Wilde

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
~Russell Baker

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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
~Pierre Loti

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Kids are always open to anything. It’s very rare that a kid isn’t extremely eager to make you happy.
~Wes Anderson

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
~Benjamin Spock

So many people have been abused. It’s not rare; it’s a very common human experience, and we survive.
~India Arie

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.
~Julian Baggini

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I confess I cannot read without squirming those passages in Great Expectations where every visitor greeted the small boy by ruffling his hair, and I think most of us can remember without any difficulty and with a flush of joy those extremely rare cases in our own childhood when some grown-up visitor treated us with real, instead of with mock, respect. It is perhaps the final test of a gentleman — his attitude toward children.
~William Lyon Phelps

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.
~Goldie Hawn

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I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It’s funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, ‘Okay, let’s experience that.’ You just have to just go with it because it’s rare.
~Julianna Margulies

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
~Adam Savage

I had really great parents… but I didn’t always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, ‘You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven’t thought of yet.’
~Ally Condie

Although nannies who cover more than one generation are rare, those like Veronica Crook ‒ who looked after me and now looks after my four children ‒ are pearls of great price. They provide a continuity and stability for a family that is of inestimable value for the child and, indeed, the man.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg

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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don’t know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can’t think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that.
~Scott Baio

It’s rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.
~Scott Berkun

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~James F Byrnes

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
~Ed Cunningham

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
~Anne Lamott

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
~Jean de la Fontaine

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~Charles Peguy

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
~William E Rothschild

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I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we’re on tour and traveling around, so it’s very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends.
~Alison Mosshart

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
~Ethan Hawke

It’s a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
~Edgar Wright

I’m grateful that on a lot of casts I’ve gained friends for life. But it’s more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.
~Matt Czuchry

Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else can change their whole perspective on life just doing that.
~Cordae

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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
~James Whistler

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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
~Baron de Montesquieu

I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human.
~Colm Meaney

It’s very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.
~Ali Wong

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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
~Fred Allen

RARE. The way you get roast beef when you order it well done.
~Noah Lott

Yeah, where I come from, we eat our sushi cooked — medium rare. And it’s made out of a cow.
~John Henson

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
~Fred Allen

I’ve always thought that I’d make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I’d have to be one of those officers who work in ‘do not shoot’ areas.
~W Bruce Cameron

There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there’s nothing funny about them, but they’re rare, and they don’t last all that long.
~Kenneth Lonergan

Here’s the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it’s rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
~Ben Feldman

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It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~Oscar Wilde

I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
~Bear Grylls

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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© Greg Thweatt

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Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
~Julie Christie

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
~William Feather

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
~Maurice Maeterlinck

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
~Thor Heyerdahl

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy,
And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint,
When we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print…
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
~Logan P Smith

I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
~Julia Roberts

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
~Thor Heyerdahl

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~Ernest Hemingway

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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~Dick Cavett

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
~Victor Hugo

I always liked different things, rare things.
~Bad Bunny

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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s remarkably rare.
~Daniel Ellsberg

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
~William Slim

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Rise at day-break, rapidly wash the whole body in cold water, rub dry with coarse towels, and use a flesh-brush to put the skin in a red glow all over. Open the window and door so that the room may become filled with good fresh air — for the play of the respiratory organs will be increased, and good air tells best. Take a half-hour’s brisk walk, or dumb-bells, or some gymnastic exercises, in the open air. Take breakfast of fresh rare lean meat, a chunk of bread, and afterwards a cup of tea.
~Mose Velsor (Walt Whitman)

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
~Juvenal

Mumbo jumbo, what have we here?
Why we have the longest day in the year.
This is the rarest day of June,
And it’s weeks and weeks from dawn to noon…
~Ogden Nash

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@Writers Platform

Hello. My name is Brooklyn Wainwright and I am a book addict. It was Friday morning and I was on my way to the Covington Library to sniff out my personal version of crack cocaine:  books. Old, rare, and beautiful. I didn’t need a twelve-step program; I just needed more bookbinding work to keep me off the streets.
~Kate Carlisle

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
~Norman Rush

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
~T S Eliot

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects ‒ things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language ‒ either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
~Aristotle

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
~Lafcadio Hearn

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She [Emily Dickinson] was a mystic. She turned the eyes of her spirit inward and led an intense life… Colored by the rare, lonely, answering flowering of nature about her, she meditated on Time and Eternity, on the vague mystery of Love, on the easy nonchalance of Death. She was the rarest emanation of the old New England life, the brooding mystic who is yet lightened by the brief gaiety of rich summers and barbaric autumns.
~Herbert S Gorman

As Shakespeare rises supreme from the prancing poetry of his fellow dramatists, as Emerson towers above his kindred Transcendentalists, so Emily Dickinson is the perfect flowering of a rare but recognizable variety of the New England gentlewoman of the past — the lily-of-the-valley variety, virginal, sequestered, to the passing eye most delicate and demure, but ringing all the while spicy bells of derision or delight.
~Katharine Lee Bates

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The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it’s rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts…
~Alan Cumming

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.
~Donald Hall

To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
~Rex Stout

And I think it’s very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
~Sophie Marceau

It’s rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.
~Richard Hatch

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
~Matt Groening

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My experience is that’s rare – that you have a script that is… what they call ‘film-ready.’
~Laura Linney

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
~Nick Hornby

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
~Thomas Carlyle

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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
~Barbara Kingsolver

McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate.
~David Benioff

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it’s rare for an author to see the place she’s created actually spring to life.
~Lori Wilde

The amateur is very rare in French literature – as rare as he is common in our own.
~Lytton Strachey

When I read ‘The Master‘, I felt that I had read a true classic. It’s so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.
~Amanda Foreman

Good writers are of necessity rare.
~George Henry Lewes

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A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It’s rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.
~Jon Lovett

Isn’t it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.
~Jamie Parker

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Prewritten Prompt: rare

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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.
~Jonathan Sacks

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Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.
~Jose N Harris

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
~Francois Fenelon

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
~Brennan Manning

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I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.
~Richard Dawkins

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.
~Ross Douthat

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time… so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, ‘Now! Now!’ and sometime later will vanish.
~Nostradamus

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
~Dick Cavett

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~Anatole France

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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
~Saint Bernard

It’s such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on ‒ that’s so rare. And in ‘I’d Do Anything,’ I’ve had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they’re on.
~Rachel Tucker (Irish actress)

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
~Andrew Cohen

King, all the better he was cobbler once,
He should know, sitting on the throne, how tastes
Life to who sweeps the doorway. But life’s hard,
Occasion rare; you cut probation short,
And, being half-instructed, on the stage
You shuffle through your part as best you can,
And bless your stars, as I do. God takes time…
~Robert Browning

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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
~Rene Descartes

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.
~Peg Bracken

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
~William John Wills

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Back in humanity’s hunter-gatherer days, you only ate meat if you’d recently made a kill, which required a huge amount of effort, and was therefore relatively rare. There’s a reason humans only have one set of incisors to rip our meat apart: we’re not supposed to eat the stuff at every meal.
~Konnie Huq

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Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
~Peter Latham

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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
~Elon Musk

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It’s rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.
~Hilary Mason

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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn’t what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
~Warwick Davis

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I’m going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
~Robin Roberts

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They say that it’s rare, and for the longest time, I felt alone being a victim of TSS [toxic shock syndrome]. It not only left physical wounds but mental ones. I battled PTSD and fell into a dark depression after what happened. I melted into my bed, and life just sort of stopped.
~Lauren Wasser (beauty transformed)

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
~Robert Breault

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I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely.
~John Forbes Nash, Jr

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
~Vivienne Westwood

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You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
~Murray Gell-Mann

When I grew up as a kid, we didn’t know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it’s possible that other planets just don’t exist in our galaxy, and it’s just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
~John M Grunsfeld

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom ‒ to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago ‒ to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
~George Emil Palade

It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.
~Scott Kelly

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you’re there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn’t be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you’re there.
~Buzz Aldrin

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We commune with flowers; we go to them if we are sad or glad; but a toad, a worm, an insect, we repel, as if real life was not half so real as imaginary life. What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle, oh! what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
~Henry Ward Beecher

Being perfect artists and ingenuous poets, the Chinese have piously preserved the love and holy cult of flowers; one of the very rare and most ancient traditions which has survived their decadence.
~Octave Mirbeau

when a rose stands alone,
thriving where no others thrive,
a rare bouquet of one
still strong, still alive….
and I smile…
~Hazelmarie Mattie Elliott

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[S]ome of the rarest days of the year come in September, days when it is comfortably cool but pulsing with life.
~Hal Borland

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
~James Russell Lowell

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity.
~Charles Ives

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant ‒ rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance ‒ but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
~Roberto Burle Marx

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
~James Earl Jones

It’s rare ‒ too rare, I have to say ‒ for botanists to become doctors.
~Andrew Weil

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Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
~James D Watson

I’ve a rare Turkish swimming cat.
~Andrew Lloyd Webber

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They’re on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
~Steve Irwin

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
~Ilka Chase

Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds.
~Hema Malini

Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
~John Burroughs

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Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy.
~Nicholas Kristof

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§ The Exercise:

prognosis

‘twould be no parity
don’t you see
grant legacy
to lunacy
legitimacy
without integrity
facile intricacies
eclipse simplicity
truth and clarity
wisdom a scarcity
quarantine sanity
lesson lost, charity
chance of recovery
a rarity
follow trajectories
doctoring the healthy
fooling with history

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limbs

skies grey unhappy there
gearing up to tear up here
a good day for a burn day
a rare day a better way
or let love decay

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Stellar View

It is simply not possible
to separate out of the weave:
good taste from bad
righteous from evil
trite from wise
platitudes from wisdom
feast from the starving
rich from rare harvest
pariah from star
unto the fringes of extremity
when all are:
whole-woven
plaited, braided
and interlaced
in the One-Same
holy human fabric
pet name: Man

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5s ‘n 7s

burled jewel turned sun-baked stone
heat storms reign, rare wide meltdowns
plagues, savage rains, sketchy food
consequences it’s been said
prophesies to those who read

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clash of intentions
creations and creators
not so rare the mix
humanity, their ai
god as programmer of men

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rare move, game board play
politics and religion
being what they are
many laws, only-scriptures
either/or choices to mend

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sweat of rare pleasure
urgencies of love-making
sweet taste of wet lips

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

It’s very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.
~Brie Larson

It’s rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
~Sigourney Weaver

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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
~Charles Dickens

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When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they’re rare.
~John Lithgow

You have to be ready to pounce when a rare chance comes.
~Susie Wolff

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There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it’s so rare.
~Kelly Marie Tran

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you’re the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn’t. We have multiple passions.
~Larry Smith

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Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare – and special – human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.
~Robin S Sharma

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
~Joseph Roux

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~Erica Jong

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
~Neal Stephenson

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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
~Zhuangzi

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
~Coco Chanel

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When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature.
~Marguerite Duras

Great Spirit of the grape—delirious kiss
Of lips immortal from the sky,
Rare Nectar of Olympus, born of bliss,
Bright spark of Aphrodite’s eye…
~Elmina Ella Susannah Elliott Atkinson

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~Margaret Drabble

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
~Ally Carter

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
~Marcus Aurelius

Rare is he who will concede genius.
~Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
~Frederick William Faber

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one’s own.
~Ross Douthat

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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
~ James Harvey Robinson

It’s a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
~Graydon Carter

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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Wordgrove
Homepage links to stories, poems, essays, early offerings, and…
Prologue, the intro to Archipelago: The Prequel Series
https://wordgrove.com

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