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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.”

World Trying Form Certain Values Century Style Narrative Conform 19th Century Experiencing The World

Author:Mark Leyner

“Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.”

Should Ends Certain President Levels Environment Practicals The End Of The Day Cooperation Diplomacy Decency Decorum Bipartisanship

Author:Mark McKinnon

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Certain Stars Middle Hollywood Asking Assuming Busy Actresses Lists Movie Star Hollywood Movies

Author:Martine McCutcheon

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

Form Certain Effects Disease Antioxidants

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“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.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“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.”

Kind Stories Film Certain Example Photography Digital Collateral Digital Photography

Author:Matthew Modine

“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.”

Certain Example Amount Property California Expensive Scarce

Author:Ralph Merkle

“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.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“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.”

Knows I Can Body Certain Doors Dog Position Fit Your Body Fancy Scream Jimmy Takeaways

Author:Rose McGowan

“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.”

People Ifs Hard Hands Film Certain Levels Hard Work Lucky Glory Standing Injustice Recognition Oscars Mixtures Standing There

Author:Walter Murch

“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.”

People Way Persons Enough Certain Strong Judging Good Things Strong Enough Be Your Own Person

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“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.”

Certain Social Grace Genius Mere Patterns Communicate Mortals Inability Eccentricity Mere Mortals Social Graces

Author:John Noble

“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.”

People Ifs Humans Persons Would Be Care Beautiful Certain Imagination Human Beings Filled Generous Appetite Elderly Propensity Flair Copenhagen

Author:Connie Nielsen

“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.”

Trying Would Be Certain Actors Hollywood Statements Daily Life

Author:Corin Nemec

“The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.”

Different Moving Certain Grows Levels Leader One Thing Demand Organization Function Various I Have Learned Requirements Ceo

Author:Indra Nooyi

“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.”

I Can Certain Half Conditions Ears Constant Damage Nerves Deaf

Author:James Nachtwey

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Kind Moving Certain Grief Scared Distress

Author:James Nachtwey

“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.”

Looks Ideas Certain Size Planes Live Life Acceptable Rejected

Author:Kathy Najimy

“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”

Certain Names Situation Power Strength Particular Institutions Structure Complexes Attributes

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

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

Certain Taxes Benefits Burden Alternatives Minimum Tax Burden

Author:Richard Neal

“A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.”

People Looks Jobs Certain President Debate Presidential Interviews Voters Traits Job Interview Presidential Debate

Author:Ron Fournier

“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.”

People Knows Trying Believe Certain Order Lost Millions Dollars Believe In Me

Author:Ehud Olmert

“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.”

People Way Trying Art Certain Levels Greatness Built Supreme Translate Symmetry Interconnected

Author:Frank Ocean

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

Years Certain Band Myth

Author:Karen O

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

Certain Talent Amount Musical Hopefully Musical Talent

Author:Leo Ornstein

“There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.”

People Way Certain Amount Concerned Performances Traditional Associates Visualization

Author:Leo Ornstein

“That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.”

Would Be Certain Individual Conditions Constant Species Organisms Variability

Author:Richard Owen

“Certain struggles never end.”

Ends Certain Struggle

Author:Tatum O'Neal

“Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.”

Years Seems Lying Certain President Four Policy Angry Democratic Guarantees President Obama Negativity Trails Rivals Romney Partisans Electorate Gridlock Vacuous

Author:Ron Fournier

“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”

Whole Certain Left Particular Periods Circumstances Aging Decline Organs Organisms Theoretical Cripples

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.”

People Certain Figures Okay Despise

Author:Will Oldham

“Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.”

Needs Sometimes Certain Order Sane

Author:Will Oldham

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

Political Certain House Belief Nations White Situation Broken Congress Addresses White House Voters Political Systems

Author:Ron Fournier

“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.”

Firsts Mean Art Philosophy Certain Sports Study Life Philosophy Martial Arts Significance Vacuous

Author:William C. Brown

“For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.”

Mean God Certain Knowing God Love Nonviolence Knowing God Ahimsa

Book:Gita: The Mother

Source: Gita: The Mother

“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind Book Running Jobs Certain Stuff Changed Prove Evidence Decided Logic Math Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Buddy Ontology Sloppy You Changed

Author:David Auburn

“ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.”

Has Beens Purpose Certain Found Logic Method Symbols Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Convenient Algebra Ontology Computation Signs And Symbols

Book:A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines

Source: A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines

“Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.”

Knows God Certain Prayer Personality Limitation Unlimited

Book:The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My religion. On life. Thoughts of God. On the meaning of life

Source: The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My religion. On life. Thoughts of God. On the meaning of life

“It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.”

Way Certain Force Sound Effects Produce Letters Jew Rhythm Representatives Compelling Definite Sequence Mantras

Author:Sir John Woodroffe

“We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.”

Ifs May Enough Certain Powerful Air Influence Effects Serious Goes On Presses Threat Radio Jew Advertising Instance Firm Features Remove Mutual Threatened Disturbed Motion Pictures

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.”

Ideas Purpose Certain Corn Bad Ideas Ethanol Biofuels Biodiesel

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.”

States Certain Enjoy United United States Democracy Degrees Democracies Have Taiwan

Author:Annette Lu

“You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.”

Happens Certain Prove Things Happen Prove It

Author:Barry Levinson

“The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.”

Knows Way Certain Walks Interesting Audience Structure Memorable Etc Interesting Things

Author:Barry Levinson

“I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Certain Process Dependent Writing Process Redundant

Author:Brie Larson

“Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.”

Thinking Way States Form Certain Organization Function Interpretation Way Of Thinking Militarism Armament

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”

People Way Believe Certain Sound Prove

Author:Coco Lee

“In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.”

Thinking Certain Memories Degrees Memoir Contracts Our Memories

Author:David Leavitt