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• I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.

  Tammara Webber

  Love Is, Leap Of Faith, Matter

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.102, Tammara Webber

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

  Nolan Gould

  Jobs, Rest Of Life, Acting

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• What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, World, Want

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• What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Opportunity, Giving, Diversity

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• I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

  Cee Lo Green

  Artist, Risk

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  Garth Hudson

  Talking, Creative, Winner

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• Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

  Frederick Buechner

  Waiting, Movement, Hunches

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

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• To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Risk, Elements, Film

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• There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

  Scotty Bowman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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• Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.” “Sure thing, Gumdrop.” I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Thinking, Sound

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.974, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?

  Wendy Mass

  People, Answers, Cry

  Wendy Mass (2012). “Twice Upon a Time #1: Rapunzel, the One With All the Hair”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  Carey Mulligan

  Running, Jobs, People

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• If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying, Late, Seducing

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• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

  Mitch Daniels

  Hands, People, Political

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• You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

  Ben Fountain

  Struggle, Thinking, Things In Life

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.

  Leo Lionni

  Leo Lionni (1960). “Inch by Inch”

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• Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Gumdrops

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• I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

  Felicity Kendal

  People, Pet, Treasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life that might be true if you have two perfect parents, and a nanny, and a couple babysitters, and support, and lots of money, and there's no strain at home, or whatever. But for most people, there's strain, you know? There's a lot of pressure, things can't be perfect, parents can't be perfect all the time. There's a divorce, there's money issues, whatever. People work, so you don't always have these vast reserves of patience every time your kid goes crazy.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ideas, Sacred, Example

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Benefits, Too Much, Bragging

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Eden, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.21, Penguin

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• When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Important, Habit

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