Not Sure Quotes - Page 15

• I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Doors, Two

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• I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Silly, Book

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• We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

  Lord Acton

  Made, Cases

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• I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Commitment, Soul

  "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.

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• I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Thinking, Kind, Knows

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.97, Yearling

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• I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Ignorance, Men, Forever

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press

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• ... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

  Nicole Brossard

  Patriarchy, Ifs

  Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)

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• I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

  Garth Brooks

  Country, Artist, Radio

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

  Margaret Atwood

  Spiritual, Mean, Facts

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

  Oscar Isaac

  Thinking, Blow, Stuff

  "Inside Llewyn's Oscar Isaac on the Coen Brothers, Bob Dylan & Success". Interview with Tim Lammers, www.esquire.com. December 06, 2013.

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• I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Thinking, People, Compliment

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• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  Mara Wilson

  Nice, Doors, Just Being

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• Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

  Honeysuckle Weeks

  Zero, Discipline, Chocolate

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• I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

  Melvin Helitzer

  Husband, Night, Interesting

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• Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, Kings

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

  Rainn Wilson

  People, Hollywood

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• I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Sight, Sky, Snow

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

  David Sedaris

  Gone, Tweet, Pretending

  Live Chat with Readers, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.

  Banksy

  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: prefuse.net

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• There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Artist, Stories, Matching

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• I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

  Audrey Tautou

  Character, Interesting, Hollywood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's important for fans to be involved in all aspects of the game. We saw the league certainly make that move towards involving fans with pro bowl voting, I'm not sure that fan voting will ever be a part of the Hall of Fame, but it is always interesting to get the perspective of the fans.

  Howie Long

  Moving, Thinking, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

  Samantha Ronson

  Artist, Soul, This Generation

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2011

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• Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.

  Seth Godin

  People, Confusion, Waiting

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• I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

  Indra Nooyi

  Family, Leadership, Mom

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