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• I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

  Dick Cavett

  Block, Writing, Giving

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• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  Jackie Chan

  Confused, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

  Tracy Chapman

  Dream, Real, People

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• I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Political, Missing

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  Gail Collins

  Husband, Nice, Thinking

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• I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

  Louis C. K.

  Stage, Disgusting, Knows

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• I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Childhood, Stories

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• I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

  Beth Ditto

  Able, Embarrassment, Feels

  "Q&A: Beth Ditto". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

  Steve Earle

  America, Justice, Criminals

  "Death in Texas" by Steve Earle, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

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• I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

  Jenny Eclair

  Men, Fiber, I Can

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• I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

  Andrew Eldritch

  People, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

  Nigel Farage

  Believe, People, Great Success

  YouTube Chanel "europar"/ "Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution", www.youtube.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Stars, Women

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

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• Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

  Joshua Foer

  Growing Up, Heart, Phones

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.100, Penguin

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• I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

  Jane Fonda

  Christian, Hollywood, Notion

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• Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Grandmother

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• Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Hours, Minutes

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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• Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Needs, Stories

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  Frank Gehry

  Motivational, Work, Sweat

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• But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Thinking, Brave, Scare

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• When we are not sure, we are alive.

  Graham Greene

  Inspirational, Life, Doubt

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.8, Random House

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• I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

  Alan Greenspan

  Wall, Government, Becoming

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, House, England

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