Certain Quotes - Page 5

• What can we say with certainty?

  Voltaire

  Certainty

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• Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

  Alan Rickman

  Film, Made, Force

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• I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

  Jay Adams

  Mistake, Good Times, Has Beens

  "Dogtown and Z-Boys". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 19, 2001.

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• We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always thought that if I was lucky enough to achieve my dreams and if I had financial security, at a certain point in my life I wanted to give back. I wanted, just corny as it sounds, to try and make the world a better place.

  Sherry Lansing

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Past, Months, Life Is

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• One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

  Doris Lessing

  Insecure, Accepting, Uncertain

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• Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Patriotic, People, May

  Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.27, John Hunt Publishing

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• I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

  Shirin Neshat

  Artist, Justice, Important

  "The exotic and the everyday" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

  Bella Thorne

  Girl, Add, Looks

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

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• I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

  Samuel

  Men, Always Arguing, Age

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• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

  Song, America, Long

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.133, University of Missouri Press

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• So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Symphony, Long, Pieces

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Quality, Coins

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.143

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Chinese, Religion, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• I don't like quintessential certitude.

  Louise Bogan

  Quintessential, Certitude

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

  Tommy Franks

  Dream, World, Only Time

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• This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

  Robert James Waller

  Once In A Lifetime, Kind, Lifetime

  "Fictional character: Robert Kincaid". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

  Phil Jackson

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Song, Way

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• Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

  Richard Owen

  Principles, Way, Genocide

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• I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Believe, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

  Epictetus

  Essence, Evil, Disposition

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.133

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• You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Successful, Stuff, Way

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Dec 14, 2011

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• I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.

  Julie Andrews

  Past, Judging, People

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