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“I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.”

Needs Looks Kind Certain Percent Population I Realized Chemistry

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.”

People Kind Certain Order Responsibility Function Mechanism Regulation Enforcement Delegates Rules And Regulations

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

Knows Believe Mean Certain Cities Quality Desirable Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.”

World Kind Made Ideas Certain Bits Secular Highways Airports Infrastructure Transportation Transportation Infrastructure

Author:Thomas Frank

“Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."”

Certain Economy Function Bases Relation Thanks Discourse Circulation Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

People Ifs Believe May Mean Certain Turns Process Democracy Particular Demand Projects Majority Democratic Disaster Great Men Minorities Tricky Efficacy Democratic Process

Book:The Roosevelt I Knew

Source: The Roosevelt I Knew

“Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”

Today Certain Known Sun Planets Labor Ultimate Missions Setting Settings Realization Historic Labor Movement Organized Labor Unionism Labour Movement

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

Ifs Inspirational Certain Given Challenges Sleep Race Alive Buddhism Periods Wake Up Lifetime Competing Going To Sleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.”

Inspirational Self Seems Pain Joy Certain Buddhism Amount Degrees Finding Yourself Worthwhile Self Knowledge Just Do It

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.”

Inspirational Certain Dies Universe Force Watches Buddhism Innocent Protective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.”

Way Certain Courses Practice Meditation Buddhism Type Dresses Lifestyle Ritual Insulted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.”

Spiritual Certain Energy Principles Worry Too Much Buddhism Elements Indian Manifestation Cosmology Spiritual Power Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive.”

Littles Two Certain Sides Alive Buddhism Amount Nerves Floating Tubes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.”

Ifs Knows Should Certain Energy Buddhism Factors Limitation Mystical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.”

Light Certain Buddhism Periods Structure Formation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light.”

Light Form Certain Teacher Buddhism Circles Manifest Mystical Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.”

Way Dream Certain Energy Causes Levels Magic Buddhism Band Perceive Linked Strands

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.”

Writing Firsts Facts Certain Stuff Satisfied Finite

Author:Rose Tremain

“In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.”

Certain Choices Interest Strength Calm Storm Clarity Certainty Arrogance Midst Divided Encouraging Heartfelt

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.”

Truth Certain Numbers Century Months Truth Is Gold Fruit Bounds Dear Immortal Decay Dear Friend Falsity

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”

Ifs Way Love May Long Pain Joy Certain Choices Difficult Challenges Leadership Path Inspire Best Way Midst Companion Discovering

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.”

Way Light Certain Gentle Arrogance Ecstasy

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

Men Believe War Hands Certain Sides Issues Peaceful Disputes Sincerely

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.”

Country Hard Government Certain Levels Spending Accustomed Government Spending Ratchets

Author:Mike Lee

“If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.”

Ifs Should Two Problem Bigs Certain Advice Doctors Paid Climate Coal Snacks

Author:Al Franken

“Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Certain Asks Answers Situation Ask Me Respect Me

Author:Patti LaBelle

“In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.”

Persons Certain Energy Chairs Leap Restless

Author:Rich Lowry

“You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.”

People Body Certain Break Knowing Type Size Legs Your Body Hips Etc Length Chests Not Knowing Dressings Make Or Break Body Types

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”

Children Faces Certain Language Fiction Losing My Children

Author:Ben Marcus

“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”

Ifs Knows Mind Certain Passion Forever Profound Track Tiny Contemplation Meant To Be Judaism Strain Elusive Ineffable Comprehending

Author:Ben Marcus

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”

Ifs Certain Wish Answers Attention Focus Hair Amount Feminist Appearance Distraction Eyebrows Sisterhood

Author:Louise Mensch

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.”

Thinking Film Certain Acting Television Down And More Time Slow Down Film And Television

Author:Thomas McDonell

“So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.”

People Thinking Feels Should Age Certain Sports Retiring

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.”

World Way Needs Certain Sports Difficult Forget Court Our World Difficult Times Tournaments

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.”

Ifs Running Certain Walks Gains Machines Weight Work Out Get Over Neurotic

Author:Andie MacDowell

“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.”

People Earth Certain Mets Hollywood Very Good Great Things Down To Earth Damon

Author:Anthony Mackie

“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

Knows Writing Certain Creating Tools Mad Creating Something Cynthia

Author:Barry Mann

“The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.”

Certain Duty Citizens Governors Attending

Author:Bob McDonnell

“Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.”

Knows Want Certain Glad Naive

Author:Dale Murphy

“I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.”

Looks Eye Moving Certain Hate Reading Spring I Hate Stuck Dialogue Comic Explanation Confused Composition Sticker

Author:Denise Mina

“Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.”

Film Certain Three Team Minutes Fit Showy

Author:Dennis Muren

“When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.”

Looks Certain Literature Instant

Author:Ella Maillart

“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.”

People Thinking Looks Country Eye Certain Views Comedy Bird British Canada Look At Me Objectivity

Author:Eric McCormack

“There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.”

World Way Years Has Beens Important Certain Revolution Workers

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.”

Certain Process Evolution Selection Variation

Book:Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”

World Persons Self Beautiful Certain Fashion Design Serious Amount And Love Regard

Author:St. Vincent

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