Certain Quotes

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, "You can't do this, you can't get tattoos, you've got to look a certain way." Now, I'm like, "Why?"

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd work well with better moreso than others.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

There's certain companies that line up with what the brand represents. There are other things that are more investment-focused.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

You don't really realize why you get attracted to certain people, and I do think scent has more to do with it than we realize.

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.

She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that, I have no idea what they do.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else was playing this character.'

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.