In Ireland here, the Revenue Commission have always been completely independent of the state since 1923, and they are quite adamant and quite clear that there was no preferential treatment and no special deals, no sweetheart deals, and that Apple paid the taxes that were due on their profits generated here in this country.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.
When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.
We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
To be in the All-Star Weekend is something that's special.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.
I like English football; it's a very important league. I like the crowds in England, too - they are noisy and create a special ambience.
There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
What's special about Amsterdam is that the city is able to connect worlds that are not otherwise connected.
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
I was lucky in that I played in a Liverpool team alongside the likes of Raheem Sterling, Jon Flanagan, Andre Wisdom and Suso and you knew that these players were special.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.