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“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.”

Knows World Way War Certain Winning Mankind Dangerous Killing Nuclear Giants Ethical Infant Abolish Atomic War

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't”

Knows Mean Certain Stones Flying Who We Are Flags Courthouses

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?”

Knows Made Certain Company Boys Source Comfort International Bullets Nickels

Author:Tommy Douglas

“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”

People Ifs Knows Way Writing Important Book Certain Literature Like You Assuming Tone Dislike Sentimentality

Author:Ben Gibbard

“I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.”

Knows Men Believe Happens Certain Fate

Author:David Gemmell

“I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".”

People Thinking Knows Way Looks May Mean Problem Certain Dying Clock Immortal Getting Old Getting Older Clock Ticking

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.”

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Author:Mark Falcoff

“I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.”

Knows Feelings Certain Stuff Tendencies

Author:Jack Osbourne

“You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.”

Knows Problem Certain Language Support Stage Serious Degrees Hey Code Where You Are Programmers Explicit Antithesis Tacit Specifications

Author:Erik Naggum

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

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Author:William Baziotes

“Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.”

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Author:Octavia Butler

“We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.”

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Author:Rosemary Altea

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

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Author:Adam Rapp

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.”

Knows Way Needs Looks Long Enough Certain Games Winning Team Football Football Game

Author:Tony Romo

“We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.”

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Author:Andy Van Slyke

“I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.”

Knows Feels Years Certain Individual Strong Sports Interest Media Very Strong Vary Footballer

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.”

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Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“Vialli's absolutely certain that he knows one way or the other whether he'll score or not.”

Knows Way Certain Football One Way Score Commentators

Author:Jonathan Pearce

“People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.”

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Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“I don't know all the certain words to word it.”

Knows Funny Certain

Author:Vanilla Ice

“You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.”

People Knows Wells Certain Scene Predictable Refreshing

Author:Crystal Reed

“As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.”

Ifs Knows Life Is Certain Views Impossible

Book:The Essential Gore Vidal

Source: The Essential Gore Vidal

“Find what you love and find a way to make that part of your every day. You have to find the confidence to take certain risks. You're going to hear a lot of no's before you get to the yes'. It's important to have that confidence to overcome that and know it's part of trying to grow something big.”

Knows Way Trying Important Bigs Certain Grows Risk Overcoming What You Love

Author:Whitney Port

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.”

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Author:Nabil Elaraby

“The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.”

People Knows Wells Doe Certain House Streets Advantage Hats

Author:Coco Chanel

“When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.”

Knows Feels Humans Ideas Reason Able Certain Lost Realizing Human Beings Forever Ought Mets Intellectual Relation Flesh Circles Labour Brutality Human Relations Dukes Caricatures

Author:George Orwell

“We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.”

Knows Giving Humans Real Able Certain Names Deals Secret Attitude Shapes Ancient Compulsion

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“One never knows when one is old for certain.”

Knows Age Certain

Book:Four Plays

Source: Four Plays

“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.”

Knows Men Certain Greatness Increase Insight Circles Endless Wretched Wretchedness Greatness Within

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.”

Knows Looks Littles I Can Able Christian Certain Happened Clarity Someday Anticipation Things In Life Comforting

Author:Amy Grant

“We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.”

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Author:Teresa of Avila

“Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

Knows Humans Kind Has Beens Real Used Certain Existence Quality Steps Doors Childhood Food Late Beats Cooking Warm Smell Fats Smoking Autumn Culinary Throat Spoons Autumn Days

Author:Kathryn Hughes

“Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.”

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Author:Eli Manning

“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.”

“Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how long it's gonna take something to grow, you never know if you're gonna hit in a certain market.”

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Author:Brantley Gilbert

“Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.”

Knows Certain Individual Information Example Blame

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.”

People Knows Men Made Certain Sacrifice

Author:Mia Hamm

“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Trying Certain Mistake Knowing Serious Cost Destructive Avoiding Facets

Author:Anne Bancroft

“[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.”

People Thinking Knows Should Looks School Certain Teacher Scene High School Naked Nudity Algebra

Author:Julia Roberts

“Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.”

People Knows Men May Certain Comfort Daily Life Conventions Considering Convenient Politeness Insisting

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.”

Knows Certain Belief

Author:Dick Gregory

“Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.”

Knows Wells Different Sometimes Whole Certain Born Know How Music Is Inspired Aids Tension Listening To Music Great Music

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga.”

Knows Art Might Certain Dies Musical Charlie Retelling Saga Art And Music Manson Freaky Charlie Manson

Author:John Roecker

“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.”

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Author:Christopher Vokes

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