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• Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Order, Leaving

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• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.

  Vinod Khosla

  Keys, Play, Risk

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

  Vinod Khosla

  Country, Technology, Wind

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• As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

  Mark Leyner

  Style, Trying, World

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• Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Disease, Form, Antioxidants

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

  Mary McDonnell

  Emotional, Vocabulary, People

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

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• For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

  Matthew Modine

  Photography, Stories, Digital

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• There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

  Ralph Merkle

  California, Example, Scarce

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "'Girl with the dragon tattoo' star Rooney Mara talks Nude Poster" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2011.

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• That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

  Rose McGowan

  Dog, Doors, Body

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• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

  Walter Murch

  Hard Work, Hands, People

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• People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Strong, People, Judging

  "Alessandro Nivola graduates to 'Mansfield Park' and beyond" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

  John Noble

  Grace, Inability, Genius

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

  Connie Nielsen

  Beautiful, Elderly, People

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.

  Corin Nemec

  Trying, Hollywood, Would Be

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

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• I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

  James Nachtwey

  Nerves, Ears, Half

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• If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

  James Nachtwey

  Grief, Moving, People

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• When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

  Kathy Najimy

  Live Life, Ideas, Looks

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• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Alternatives, Benefits, Burden

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• There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

  Ehud Olmert

  Believe, Order, People

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• In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Greatness, People

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  Karen O

  Years, Band, Myth

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

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• Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

  Leo Ornstein

  Musical, Talent, Hopefully

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