Certain Quotes
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
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I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
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I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.
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I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
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If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.
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It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.
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Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.
