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• You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

  Kim Gordon

  Audience, Knows

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• And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

  Peter Gay

  Strong, Understanding, Interest

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• I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Fall, Years, Europe

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• For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

  Linda Hunt

  Beautiful, Ideas, Actors

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• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  Brit Hume

  Stars, Air, Luxury

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

  Christina Hendricks

  Guy, Lucky, Scene

  "Christina Hendricks In British GQ: In Lingerie, Adores Tight Clothing". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.

  Dante Hall

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Media, Bridges

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• Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.

  Lianne La Havas

  Color, Shapes, Remember

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• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  Patricia Heaton

  Nice, School, Kids

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• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  Carl Icahn

  Winning, Joy, Feels

  "Icahn on Icahn". www.breakingviews.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

  Robert Jordan

  Heart, Different, Culture

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, edition.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Men, Numbers

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• But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

  Donald Judd

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  Famke Janssen

  Trying, World, Actresses

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• So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Roles, Kind, Type

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• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

  Ken Jennings

  Simple, Space, Gps

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• There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

  Mike Johanns

  Country, Borders, Momentum

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

  Toby Jones

  Beautiful, Light, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

  Tom Jones

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

  Ellie Kemper

  Writing, Thinking, Pleasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

  Ezra Koenig

  Artist, Luxury, Issues

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

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• Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dresses, Want, Way

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

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Way

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

  William Kunstler

  Country, Fighting, Government

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