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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
I love my brows, but I have to fill them in to look a certain way. And with the eyebrow tint, I don't have to fill them in as much.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.
I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.
It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
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.
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.