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• You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Knowing, People, Body

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

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• Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

  Ben Marcus

  Children, Fiction, Faces

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.

  Julie Mehretu

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

  Louise Mensch

  Sisterhood, Hair, Eyebrows

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Our World, Needs

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

  Andie MacDowell

  Running, Work Out, Machines

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• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Creating, Mad

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

  Bob McDonnell

  Citizens, Duty, Attending

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• Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

  Dennis Muren

  Team, Three, Film

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• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

  Ella Maillart

  Looks, Literature, Instant

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• There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

  Ernest Mandel

  Years, Important, World

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

  Ernst Mayr

  Variation, Evolution, Process

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

  Mark Zandi

  Country, Zero, Vegas

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• Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

  Peter Zumthor

  Letting Go, Order, Care

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  Rachel Zoe

  Littles, Way, Freak

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• I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.

  Jonathan Hull

  People, Different, Faces

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it’s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.

  James Morcan

  War, People, Hatred

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• A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

  Alex Flinn

  Girl, Boys, Love Is

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• I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

  Kaya Scodelario

  People, Age, Actors

  "FUTURES: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Breakout Kaya Scodelario On Working For Andrea Arnold and Breaking Boundaries With ‘Skins’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 5, 2012.

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• No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

  Jello Biafra

  Song, Style, Sound

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I do feel a certain love from the British public.

  Rod Stewart

  British, Feels

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• It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

  Pete Sampras

  Believe, Athlete, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

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• The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

  Gerda Lerner

  Actions Have Consequences, Choices, Undone

  Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

  John Legend

  World, Way

  "Grammy-Winning Soul Musician John Legend at UPenn Commencement: 'A Commitment to Truth Requires a Commitment to Social Justice'". www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2009.

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