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• Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.

  Jonathan Eig

  Smart, Book, Deception

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• I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

  Cee Lo Green

  Artist, Risk

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  Garth Hudson

  Talking, Creative, Winner

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• Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

  Frederick Buechner

  Waiting, Movement, Hunches

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

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• What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Opportunity, Giving, Diversity

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

  Don Herold

  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?

  Rob Dyrdek

  Time Of Your Life, Sketchy

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• There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

  Scotty Bowman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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• How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?

  Wendy Mass

  People, Answers, Cry

  Wendy Mass (2012). “Twice Upon a Time #1: Rapunzel, the One With All the Hair”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.” “Sure thing, Gumdrop.” I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Thinking, Sound

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.974, Simon and Schuster

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• Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Gumdrops

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• To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Risk, Elements, Film

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• If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying, Late, Seducing

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• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  Carey Mulligan

  Running, Jobs, People

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• Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.

  Leo Lionni

  Leo Lionni (1960). “Inch by Inch”

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• You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

  Ben Fountain

  Struggle, Thinking, Things In Life

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

  Mitch Daniels

  Hands, People, Political

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• The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ideas, Sacred, Example

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Important, Habit

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• If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

  Eva Mendes

  Coachella, Would Be, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Book, Doors

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• There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Benefits, Too Much, Bragging

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life Is, Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life

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• Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

  Aristotle

  War, Class, Soul

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

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