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• They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

  Merle Haggard

  Cutting, Balance, Pieces

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• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  Patricia Heaton

  Nice, School, Kids

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• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  Carl Icahn

  Winning, Joy, Feels

  "Icahn on Icahn". www.breakingviews.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

  Michael Imperioli

  Pain, Cities, Detroit

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• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Baby, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Lying, Character, Trying

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• I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

  Robert Jordan

  Heart, Different, Culture

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, edition.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Men, Numbers

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• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

  Bill James

  Growing Up, Believe, People

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• But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

  Donald Judd

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  Famke Janssen

  Looks, Way, Kind

  "Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2012.

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  Famke Janssen

  Trying, World, Actresses

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• So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Roles, Kind, Type

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• People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Mistake, Long, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

  Ken Jennings

  Simple, Space, Gps

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• There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

  Mike Johanns

  Country, Borders, Momentum

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Knows, Written

  "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Diversity, Firsts, Form

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

  Toby Jones

  Running, Children, Thinking

  "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.

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• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

  Toby Jones

  Beautiful, Light, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

  Tom Jones

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

  Doutzen Kroes

  Jobs, Giving Up, Believe

  Interview with Tarek Hijazi, www.askmen.com. January, 2011.

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• I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

  Ellie Kemper

  Writing, Thinking, Pleasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

  Ellie Kemper

  Choices, Suffering, Plans

  "Ellie Kemper's Wedding Season DOs and DON'Ts". www.glamour.com. May 10, 2012.

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• As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

  Ezra Koenig

  Artist, Luxury, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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