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“I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.”

Mind Character Law Guy Certain Order Sides Growing Up Growing Feet Type Hero Spring Cinema Camps Ireland Bad Guys Law And Order Mcqueen

Author:Liam Neeson

“I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.”

Ifs Certain Next Realizing Animal Issues Environment Generations Concerned Impact Critical Welfare Next Generation Animal Welfare This Generation

Author:Michael Pollan

“Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.”

World Looks Certain Term Natural Fields Eating Historian Cows Corn Natural World

Author:Michael Pollan

“There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.”

Knows Certain Basic Things

Author:Michael Pollan

“Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.”

Ifs Certain Dies Animal Sacrifice Involved Vegetables Farming

Author:Michael Pollan

“I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.”

People Feels Kind Self Facts Certain Sound Rocks Sick Embrace Starting Bored Get Real Stale Self Indulgent

Author:Jason Reece

“I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.”

People Ifs World Two Certain Answers Negative Say Anything

Author:Richard Simmons

“The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.”

People Ifs Men Ideas Certain Courses Fashion Industry Gay Assumption Proven Fashion Industry

Author:Tim Gunn

“Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.”

People Ifs Knows Way Looks Mean Sometimes Character Faces Certain Can Do Lines Audience Stage Tvs Series Get Away Your Face Animated Puppets Tv Series

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'”

Want Trying Kind Certain Sin Circles Venture

Author:Timothy Keller

“Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.”

Should Different Certain Values Culture Walks Accepting Streets West Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Bikinis Westerners Value Systems Different Values

Author:John Cleese

“I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.”

Want Writing May Book Ideas Might Certain Creativity Pieces Information Produce Inspired Broads

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.”

Ifs Mind Persons Play Certain Games Plans Goes On Consequence Defense Dynamics Game Plan

Author:Robert Greene

“When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.”

People Knows Wells Facts Happens Faces Certain Lost Bits Too Much Sick Things Happen Familiar Tunes Threshold

Author:Robert Greene

“I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.”

Way Feels Persons Bigs Certain Song Order Fall Falling In Love

Author:Britney Spears

“I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.”

Needs I Can Certain Walks Cutting Comfortable Aspect Performers Jungle Wire

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.”

Thinking Ideas Night Certain Song Mistake Audience Reactions

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.”

Sometimes Certain Disguise Really Cool

Author:Rupert Grint

“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.”

People Writing Trying Doe Happens Certain Culture Born Fiction Ministers Novelists

Author:Gore Vidal

“There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.”

Ifs Writing I Can Ideas Happens Certain Stuff Seeing Stage Comic Hanging Out Stuff Happens

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.”

Long Enough Certain Realizing Comedian Genes Hyper

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.”

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Author:John Kasich

“Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.”

People Book Ideas Film Certain Accepting Fixed

Author:Hugh Dancy

“Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.”

People Way Trying Long Has Beens Stills I Can Play Certain Next Games Attention Company Long Time Edges Entertainment Video New Ways Nintendo

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].”

Want Done Artist Certain Causes Collaboration No Point Caliber

Author:Mariah Carey

“Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.”

Thinking Age Certain Realizing Clear Growing Convinced Growing Old Growing Older

Author:Leonard Cohen

“When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.”

People Ifs Play Certain Sports Can Do Focus Aim Golf Hardest Concentration Bowling

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.”

Kind Self Certain Advantage Employed

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.”

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Author:Chris Kluwe

“Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith.”

Government Form Certain Nations Community Democracy Secular Forms Of Government Trusting Each Other

Author:Sue Halpern

“We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.”

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Author:Kathy Sierra

“Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.”

Men Mind Certain Principles Laughing Taste Weakness Weak Stronger Superiors Consistent Delicacy Weak Man Susceptibility

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.”

Years Certain Civilization Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Inadequate

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”

May Would Be Certain Fool Personality Circumstances Criminals Impulse Unjust Birthright

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.”

World Certain Given Confidence All Things Curious Certainty

Book:Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”

Ends Certain Valuable Tension Relief Wire Snaps

Author:Kathleen Winsor

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.”

“There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.”

Certain Voice Quality Style Technique Singers Mercury

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.”

Mind Science Certain Principles Connected Practicals Objectives Evident Subjective

Author:William Fleming

“in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight”

War Certain Clear Crisis Midst Hindsight

Book:The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

“Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.”

People Ifs Way Persons Home Wanted Certain Left Sin Wonder Calling Suicide Folks Accidents Awful Folks Home

Book:The Cape Ann: A Novel

Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel

“Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”

Eye Certain Grace Tomorrow Reminders Better Days

Book:Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

“I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.”

Certain Felt Accepting Amount Surrender Privacy Governors

Author:James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

“I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.”

Thinking Problem Hands Eye Certain Rich Focus Tired Charm Leafs Texture Cgi

Author:Matt Groening

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

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