"You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy."
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"At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground."
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"If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music."
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"I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur."
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"I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are."
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"I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period."
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"There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private."
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"Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too."
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"Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure."
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"The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it."
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"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
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"Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things"
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"Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa."
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"Be confident, not certain"
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"I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature."
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"You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there."
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"A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family."
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"Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes."
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"I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics."
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"When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence."
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