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• The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

  Marc Almond

  Hands, Russia, People

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Together

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• I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

  Megan Abbott

  Thinking, Age, Said

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• You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

  Monica Ali

  Running, Assuming, Life Is

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• There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

  Peter Andre

  "Peter Andre: I don't regret my split with Katie Price being on reality TV" by Vicky Frost, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

  Wes Anderson

  Order, Way, Foxes

  "Cannes 2012: Wes Anderson on Making 'Moonrise Kingdom' and His Cannes Debut". Interview with Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2012.

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• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Character, Luxury

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• What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

  Emily Browning

  Crazy, Looks, Way

  "Emily Browning: total control". Interview With Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  Atom Egoyan

  Home, Son, Nursing

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

  Eliot Engel

  Cells, Adults, Needs

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• I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

  Faith Evans

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

  Michael Ealy

  Moving, Bored, Trying

  "Michael Ealy Talks 'Underworld: Awakening' and Black Cinema". Interview with Nijla Mumin, www.indiewire.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Book, Writing

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

  Tertullian

  Impossible, Certainty

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Determined, Length, Operations

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• My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

  George Schaller

  Nature, Curiosity, World

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• Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

  Frank Zappa

  Suicide, Bridges, Firsts

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• Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

  Clint Black

  Love, Kind, Mines

  Song: Something That We Do

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• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, May, Pleasure

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• We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Moving, Media

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• My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

  Judy Blume

  Crush, Looks, Way

  Judy Blume (2014). “Forever”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Body, Matter

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.227

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• It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Men, Numbers

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

  Emmet Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Character

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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