Certain Quotes - Page 25

• Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dresses, Want, Way

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

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• Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

  Nick Kroll

  Trying, Want, Comedy

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Way

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

  William Kunstler

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

  Bob Kerrey

  Heart, Purple, Medal

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

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• Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Eye, Expression, Voice

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• By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Order, Narrators

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• It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Two, Mind, Action

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• If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

  Kary Mullis

  Ideas, Reincarnation, Happens

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• I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Strong, Character, Different

  "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com.

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• In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

  Delia Ephron

  Nature, Children, Age Difference

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• The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Recovery, Loss, Choices

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

  Augustus William Hare

  God, World, Idle

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspiring, Practice, Effort

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.149, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

  Bill McCollum

  Punishment, Criminals, United States

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• Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Perfect, Lasts, Taste

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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• When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

  Alexander Kluge

  Thinking, Expression, People

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• The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

  Emir Kusturica

  World, Next, Problem

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  Hans Kung

  Children, Wife, Temptation

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• You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

  Harvey Korman

  Stars, Bananas, Persona

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• I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Thinking, Broken

  "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

  Jack Kingston

  Men, Elements, Men And Women

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• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Average, United States

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• My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

  Jonathan King

  Kings, Careers, Knowing

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