Certain Quotes - Page 35

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Big Sean

Trying, Way, Vulnerable

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It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

Justin Bieber

Swag, Trying, Way

"Justin Bieber Reveals Will Smith Counsels Him Weekly in Rare, Raw Interview" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2013.

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Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Terry Gilliam

Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

"Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

Eckhart Tolle

Life Changing, Friendly, Different

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

Ronda Rousey

Moving, Mma, Ideas

"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

Bob Teague

Pride, Son, Men

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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

Eudora Welty

Reading, Heart, Writing

Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

Nancy Spero

Art, Thinking, Feminist

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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Archie Shepp

Play, Numbers, People

"A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Gavin Rossdale

Work Out, Roles, Band

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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

Jason Babin

Men, Brain, Needs

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My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Jason Babin

Team, Effort, Degrees

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I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

Tony D'Souza

Doubt, Students, Great American

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[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

Allan Dwan

Cameras, Improvisation, Amount

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

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I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Andrew Dost

Nice, Thinking, Driving

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Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

Peter Hollingworth

Years, Important, Matter

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You are all you will ever have for certain.

June Havoc

Havoc

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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

Victor Pinchuk

Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

Kevin P. Ryan

Jobs, Waiting, Understanding

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Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

Steve Leveen

Book, Reading, Optimistic

Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.

Cynthia Breazeal

Thinking, People, Robots

"Profile: Cynthia Breazeal". "Nova ScienceNow" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. November 21, 2006.

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I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.

Ben Thompson

Fun, Fighting, Men

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From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

Gyorgy Lukacs

Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that … the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.

Mohammed Dahlan

Giving, Promise, President

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Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

Robin Guthrie

Guitar, Interesting, Waiting

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