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• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Mistake, Moving

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• I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

  Libby Trickett

  Two, Balance, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Running, Would Be, World

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• I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Growth, Pursue

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• People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

  Sophie Thompson

  Book, People, Might

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• Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Suffering, Desire

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• When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

  Damien Hirst

  Couple, Two, Feet

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• I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Heart, Thankful To God

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• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

  William Merritt Chase

  Education, School, Boys

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• Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!

  Kate Nash

  Singing

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• As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem.

  Flint McGlaughlin

  Years, Challenges, Research Study

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• I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Use, Looking Forward, Enjoyment

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• Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

  Basil Hume

  Death, Love You, Long

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• In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Art, Thinking, One Direction

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• I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Crush, Smart, Men

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• Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Authority, Unlimited

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• Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Games, Waiting, Till The End

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Als, Lists

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, Balls, Architecture

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.

  Randall Jarrell

  Attitude, Doubt, Might

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden's Poetry" (p. 131), 1969.

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• Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Done, Research

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• I'm not sure history has ended.

  John Bolton

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• The major media companies are playing a defensive game, and I'm not sure I blame them. If you look at the digital revolution, you look at who the winners and the losers are, there are some very very big losers - music, the newspaper industry. And there are some really big winners, social media, Facebook.

  Harry E. Sloan

  Media, Games, Digital Revolution

  "Harry Sloan & Jeff Sagansky: The Future Is Content — and It’s Outside the U.S". Interview with Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 21, 2011.

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• To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.97, Stanford University Press

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