Certain Quotes - Page 21

• What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

  Emily Browning

  Crazy, Looks, Way

  "Emily Browning: total control". Interview With Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Attitude, Black And White, Maturity

  "Giancarlo Esposito talks ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Revolution’ and Emmys". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 31, 2012.

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• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  Atom Egoyan

  Home, Son, Nursing

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

  Eliot Engel

  Cells, Adults, Needs

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• In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

  Emilio Estevez

  Technology, People, Brain

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview with Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

  Faith Evans

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

  Michael Ealy

  Moving, Bored, Trying

  "Michael Ealy Talks 'Underworld: Awakening' and Black Cinema". Interview with Nijla Mumin, www.indiewire.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Islamic, Differences

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Struggle, Iran, Democracy

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• Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Thinking, Chance, Very Good

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• It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

  Will Forte

  Numbers, Donkey, Score

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• I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Book, Writing

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

  Tertullian

  Impossible, Certainty

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Determined, Length, Operations

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• VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Virtue, Certainty, Abstention

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

  George Schaller

  Nature, Curiosity, World

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• If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cities, House

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.159, UNM Press

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• Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

  Frank Zappa

  Suicide, Bridges, Firsts

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• Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

  Clint Black

  Love, Kind, Mines

  Song: Something That We Do

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• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Circles

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• Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Revolution, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

  James Daly

  Business, Believe, Thinking

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• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, May, Pleasure

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