Quotes and Sayings About Certain
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
-- Aaliyah -
Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
-- Abraham KaplanSource : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
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Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
-- Adam Carolla -
I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.
-- Adam Lambert -
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At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
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Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
-- Adolph GottliebSource : 1947 In Tiger's Eye, vol.1, no.2, Dec, quoted in C Harrison and Paul Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
-- Albert Camus -
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
-- Albert Camus -
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
-- Albert Ellis -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
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To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
-- Alex Webb -
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
-- Alex Winter -
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I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
-- Alex WinterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
-- Alexander Wang -
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
-- Alfred Molina -
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
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I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.
-- Alyssa Milano