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• I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

  Stephen Bayley

  Antiques, Interest, Aesthetic

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• The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Husband, Men, Giving

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.369

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Gay, Proud

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• I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

  John Singer Sargent

  Overcoming, Talent

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• Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

  John Singer Sargent

  Eye, Names, Vision

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 123, 1927.

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• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

  Paul de Man

  Criticism, Would Be, Movement

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

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• I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

  Millard Drexler

  Running, Numbers, Intuition

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• When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

  Katarina Witt

  Dream, Athlete, Thinking

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• Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

  Alice James

  Quantity, Indestructible, Productive

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

  Ed Rollins

  Senior, Thinking, Years

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• People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Princess, People, Fame

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• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Reading, Creative, Trying

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• It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

  Paul Kantner

  Form, Bigger, Situation

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• What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

  David Puttnam

  Diversity, Natural, Force

  "News Corporation has sought to undermine elected governments" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2012.

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• I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

  Sam Shepard

  Horse, Writing, Earning

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• Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Way, Form, Found

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• In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

  Tori Spelling

  Honesty, Reality, Worry

  "Spelling Confesses To Near Bankruptcy". www.sfgate.com. March 31, 2008.

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• A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

  George H. Mead

  Personality, Normal, Multiple

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• Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Latin, Greek, Different

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• That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

  Casey Kasem

  Believe, Humanity, Quality

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• I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

  Alberto Salazar

  Athlete, Personality, Stuff

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Problem, Structure

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Player

  "Mike Singletary: short fuse and short leash" by David White, www.sfgate.com. October 10, 2010.

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• If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Opera, Way, Approach

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