Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    Source: A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Asa Gray It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Caroline Shaw It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Bush It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Henrik Ibsen It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Wald It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
    George Wald
     
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  • Ben E. King It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Sam Levenson It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Brooks Robinson It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • David Harris It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
    David Harris
     
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  • Katherine Mansfield It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Ben Folds It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bill Condon It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bianca Kajlich It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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