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• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Home, Average

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Views, Mind, Lessons

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• We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Book, Parent, Atmosphere

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

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• There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is Zodiac, and that didn't perform that well.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Zodiac, Done, Ranking

  "Chloë's world". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  David Sanborn

  Country, Hip Hop, Different

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

  David Sanborn

  Drama, Thinking, Smooth Jazz

  "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

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• There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

  John Schlesinger

  Actors, Very Good, Improvising

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• And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Musical, Important, Transformation

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• People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Want, Tickets

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• As a person progresses along the path of power, they attract certain forces and beings from other dimensions, who feel the power that you are storing. Sometimes they want some of it; sometimes they want to ruin you. We call these beings entities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Progress, Want, Ruins

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• Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Buddhism, Light

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• The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Compassion, Giving

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• Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

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• The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Overcoming

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• Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Two

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• Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, People

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• I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

  Jean Smart

  Thinking, People

  "Jean Smart Is Regina in Samantha Who?". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 20, 2009.

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• So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Exit, Serious

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• There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Loss, Ends, Series

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• The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

  Joel Silver

  Ideas, People, Interesting

  "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

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• That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

  Matt Stone

  Decision, Principles, Paper

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

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  Radhanath Swami

  Believe, Two, Ego

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