- Nov 07, 2020
Certain Things Quotes
On the few things worth holding onto.
This page gathers certain things quotes built around narrowing attention, whether that means filtering out chaos on a film set or naming hope as one of the essentials to carry through hard periods. The mood pairs well with Life quotes for a broader view of what people choose to hold onto.
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- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020