Certain Quotes

I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single."

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

Its cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

Even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ's first coming, His second coming is certain.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.