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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. -- Jonathan Franzen
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level. -- Meredith Whitney
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success. -- T.I.
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency. -- Curt Schilling
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. -- Michael Harrington
Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me. -- Jerry Seinfeld
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk. -- Vladimir Putin
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. -- Gabrielle Union
I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. -- Sean Combs
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble. -- Jason Statham
There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly. -- Jill Scott
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. -- Frank Ocean
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level. -- Kylie Minogue
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change. -- Mark McKinnon
I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it. -- Halle Berry
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. -- Eddie Vedder
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. -- Vera Wang
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. -- Bill Gates
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. -- Barbara Kruger
Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity. -- Natalie Dormer
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There's a certain level of comfort that comes when you move in together. The mystery is gone. She starts dressing for bed in your pajamas, cream on her face, Uggs, curlers. What happened to the sexy girl that used to come to bed in lingerie? The girl says, 'We don't need to act.' -- Marlon Wayans
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. -- Vera Wang
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. -- Frank Ocean
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it. -- Damon Lindelof
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well. -- Patrick Stewart
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain levelï»¿ of alienation -- Terence McKenna
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level. -- Michael Helm
It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness. -- Matthew Donnelly
I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude. -- Kid Cudi
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. -- Max Frisch
I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence. -- Michael Ian Black
Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day. -- Andy Roddick
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. -- Ertharin Cousin
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it -- Bill Sienkiewicz
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married. -- Usain Bolt
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. -- Billy Higgins
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type. -- Famke Janssen
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth. -- Ramez Naam
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. -- Shirley Knight
Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system. -- Shepard Fairey
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. -- Albert Camus
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. -- John Banville
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life. -- Elizabeth Bowen
My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past. -- Frank Thomas
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom. -- Hillary Clinton
[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that. -- Condola Rashad
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. -- Margaret Cho
A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth. -- Franz Bardon
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity. -- Christophe Lemaire
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. -- David Shuster
I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust. -- Phil Jackson
If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare. -- Erica Jong
Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level. -- Rick Strassman
When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no. -- Jose Carreras
Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality. -- Jaggi Vasudev
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. -- Mark Kozelek
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up. -- Brendan Fehr
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back. -- Mike Lee
If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor. -- Sylvester Stallone
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done. -- Julie James
The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds. -- Chris Matthews
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it. -- Adam Lambert
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough. -- Terence McKenna
I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education. -- Edward Norton
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level. -- Zephyr Teachout
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward. -- Jim Gaffigan
When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world. -- Katarina Witt
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level. -- Tom Chatfield
When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level. -- Vijender Singh
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. -- David Guterson
At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves. -- Eric Balfour
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important. -- David Brooks
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life. -- Stefan Kieszling
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own. -- Michael Beck
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. -- Albert Einstein
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level. -- Adam Mansbach
I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention. -- Billie Piper
This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism. -- Susan Estrich
Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God. -- Ivan Lendl
I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. -- Sean Combs
I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record. -- Michael Bolton
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting. -- Bruce Dern
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality. -- Bertrand Russell
It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself. -- Jim Dodge
Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level. -- Chevy Chase
It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly. -- Kim Deal
You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7. -- Jamie Foxx
I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level. -- Christian Slater
If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him. -- Seymour Papert
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering. -- Samuel R. Delany
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. -- George Orwell
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction. -- Junot Diaz
The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do. -- Eric Church
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. -- Robert Redford
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort. -- Mark Matousek
Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up. -- Spike Lee
I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers. -- Kerry Greenwood
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician. -- Nicholson Baker
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income. -- Thomas Sowell

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