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• Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

  Roberta Flack

  Mean, Successful, Have Faith

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• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  Gary Sinise

  Priorities, Risk, Acting

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Fcc

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Kids, Thinking

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• I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, People, Personality

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• National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

  Kofi Annan

  People, Together, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

  Abdul Kalam

  Type, Trade, Policy

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• I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

  Chaim Potok

  Reading, Order, Alive

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• Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

  Wentworth Miller

  Expectations, Actors, Way

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• I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

  Julian Baggini

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing.

  Tracy Pollan

  Talking, Support, Parent

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• Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

  M. Ward

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• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Done, Lawyer

  "Happiness: The elusive emotion". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Islam, Used, Ideology

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

  Cheryl James

  Children, Careers, Clothes

  "Let's talk about sex, religion, bulimia, therapy and Salt-N-Pepa's overdue UK comeback" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 06, 2010.

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• In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

  Snoop Dogg

  Real, Kids, Names

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

  John Milius

  People, Giants, Looks

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• I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

  Neil LaBute

  Guy, Privilege, Fit

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• I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Hours

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• Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

  Lisa Loeb

  Next Day, Prioritize, Always Learning

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• As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, People, Musician

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• My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

  Carla Gugino

  Play, Challenges, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Style, Fans, Stories

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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