Not Sure Quotes - Page 22

• I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  England, Ancestry, Muse

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• "Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Names, Different

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is a side of what he does that I'd like to do, a bit more privately. I'm not sure he is as interested in history, as I am.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Doe, Different, Facts

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.

  Nat Hentoff

  Atheist, Believe, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

  Roxane Gay

  Ambition, Kids, Adults

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Parent, Bereavement

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Fall, Gay, Mourning

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Keith, Honest

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Xenophobia, Passion

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• I think that part of the problem that arose with that legislation, is that there probably wasn't sufficient information - probably there was misinformation. I am not sure that they have looked at the legislation.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Information, Problem

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I hope that social interaction will still exist in the future. Technology has become a way of mediating human interaction, coming in between old-fashioned phone calls and face-to-face chitchat. Not sure where it'll end up.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Technology, Phones, Way

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I think that's pretty expected. I'm not sure Nile and I went in consciously not to make "Let's Dance." We just wanted to work together again.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Together Again, Working Together

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not sure the words have roots. They are emanations of his psyche, but has he thought it through? Is there an argument, is there a policy implication?

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Roots, Argument

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Eight, Erosion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well. I'm not sure it's illegal, but it's extremely stupid.

  David Brooks

  Stupid, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Monsters, Economics

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

  Stephen Colbert

  Advice, Trouble, Young

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

  John Medina

  Style, Environment, States

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

  Hilary Mantel

  Facts, Ethical, Very Good

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

  Joe Rogan

  Moving, Creating, Ants

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, People, Leader

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

  Jeff Gannon

  Media, New Media

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• Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Sometimes, Bounds

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say it's a new alternative, at least. I think my personal contribution over the last 25 years has really been to give a lot of young entrepreneurs a lot of hope: Acer can, they can. Stan can, they can.

  Stan Shih

  Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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