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I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too. -- Robin Lord Taylor
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. -- David Hockney
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time. -- Albert Einstein
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. -- Brad Bird
I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived. -- James Frey
Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family. -- Michael W. Smith
You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. -- Sugata Mitra
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. -- Ben Kingsley
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. -- Sharon Tate
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work. -- Janet Yellen
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. -- Mark Haddon
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. -- Steve Carell
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness. -- Ioan Gruffudd
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper. -- Ridley Pearson
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. -- Angela Davis
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. -- Julia Sweeney
People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people. -- Todd Barry
I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things. -- Bill Belichick
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. -- John Pomfret
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. -- Zachary Quinto
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle. -- James McAvoy
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in. -- Neil Tennant
I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. -- Eddie Van Halen
I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not. -- Phil Anselmo
We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns. -- Nathan Wolfe
A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a certain extent because the reaction we get from children out in the world is so fulfilling, I cannot even articulate it. There's nothing like being greeted as Snow White by a hyperventilating child versus Ginnifer Goodwin. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think everything is fair game to a certain extent. -- Gary Gulman
To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person. -- Jason James Richter
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil. -- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. -- David Strathairn
Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable. -- Steve Pink
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. -- Albert Einstein
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. -- Penn Jillette
Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play. -- Alex Webb
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. -- William James
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. -- Barnett Newman
I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean. -- Jon Heder
I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot. -- George W. Bush
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand. -- William H. Macy
I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were! -- Pia Zadora
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies. -- Clive Owen
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. -- Cybill Shepherd
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think. -- Tony Hancock
I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it. -- Morgan Freeman
I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge. -- Raymond Kelly
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. -- Walter Savage Landor
When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent. -- Donald Trump
There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas. -- Angela Merkel
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation. -- Nick Lowe
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction. -- Jo Nesbo
Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas. -- Reggie Watts
For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly. -- Hans Kung
My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends. -- Shraddha Kapoor
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated. -- Marjane Satrapi
There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory. -- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent. -- Sheryl Crow
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves. -- Robert Fortune
I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan. -- Donald Trump
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life. -- Harry Callahan
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. -- Richard Owen
I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent. -- Stephen King
I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful. -- Henry Rollins
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer. -- Teddy Thompson
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write. -- Edward Albee
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. -- Maggie Gallagher
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness, -- Ioan Gruffudd
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true. -- Harold Pinter
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think. -- Paul Beatty
To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything. -- John Malkovich
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. -- Edgar Allan Poe

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