Certain Quotes
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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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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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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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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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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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 have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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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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I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.
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Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.
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For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.
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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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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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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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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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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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It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.
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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 are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.
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In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.
