Certain Quotes
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
Richard Feynman
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Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
Tim Johnson
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
Hedy Lamarr
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I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.
Sharon Stone
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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
Michael Ian Black
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
Albert Camus
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz
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You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
Herbie Hancock
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Robert Wyatt
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I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.
Hilary Mantel
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
Paul Newman
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I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
Paul Auster
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Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.
Sarah Dessen
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In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Rich Lowry
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Sara Gruen
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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.
Todd Solondz
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Wilt Chamberlain
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You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.
Teju Cole
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I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
David Bowie
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Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.
Chace Crawford
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When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.
Cary Fukunaga
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I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.
Monica Potter
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I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.
Torrey Smith
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Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.
Nia Long