Certain Kind Quotes
165 quotes by 154 authors
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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance,…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a…
— Leonard Cohen
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As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
— C.S. Lewis
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I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It…
— Lisa Kudrow
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In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there…
— Caroline Paul
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are…
— Mickey Rourke
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By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
— Rajneesh
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the…
— Ray Kroc
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
— James A. Baldwin
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names…
— Robbie Robertson
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But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind…
— Barbara Kruger
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Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
— William Holden
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Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.
— Grace Kelly
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a…
— Rachael Taylor
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,…
— Alastair Reynolds
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Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of…
— Albert Ellis
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There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets…
— Van Morrison
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
— D. A. Carson
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