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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding… — Claude Bernard
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a… — Duncan Sheik
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.… — Azzedine Alaia
Sometimes thereâ€™s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens. — Naomi Shihab Nye
I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of… — Jackson Pearce
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather… — James Paul Gee
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the… — Norman O. Brown
Many things are possible. Few things are certain. — Harry Turtledove
Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. — J. A. Jance
I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing… — Unknown Author
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical… — George Crumb
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of… — George Crumb
Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family. — Margaret Way
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth… — Jojo Moyes
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition… — Bryan Stevenson
We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on… — Malin Akerman
You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. — Jonathan Dimbleby
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. — Jonathan Dimbleby

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