To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language… it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
The numbers are there just to help you – at the end of the day you’ve still got to make the decision. There are certain things the numbers can’t quantify: They can’t quantify injuries, they can’t quantify the weather, they can’t give you a number on whether the referee’s going to make a good call or a bad call.
There are certain things I just don’t talk about – there are certain things that are private.
I already know Cover 3, Cover 2, everything else. But it’s a lot of times, defenses try to take you away and they do certain things that you wouldn’t be ready for.
I’m definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
There are certain things black people just don’t do, OK? Skiing is one of them.
I sort of expose the truth about common misconceptions, or you know, investigate why we do certain things culturally, why we have certain traditions, and ask the question, ‘is this really the best way we can be doing things?’
There are certain things that don’t mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds.
I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don’t view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it’s good or bad. But overall, I don’t view things as good or bad.
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
I’m trained to look for certain things… I shoot, I shoot, I shoot, and then I go find it in the ether.
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it’s just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.
I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it’s very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.
When I started out, I was more focussed on being creative and wanting to do certain things I hadn’t done before. That’s great if you’re doing fashion as a hobby. But when you want to sell out stores, you need to be very sure of the balance between commerce and art.
When ‘Game Of Thrones’ came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing – getting more followers doesn’t bother me at all.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn’t do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.
Also, I’m always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.
If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you’re limited to certain things. And I don’t feel like I’m limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do.
Certain things have happened in my life where it has been crazy touch-and-go situations, but it has let me know that, even if there are going to be difficult times, there’s always a bright side to everything.
I’m not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
I read certain things about history. I don’t like fiction. I read about stuff that’s real, stuff that’s goin’ on in the world.
I lose film roles because I’m a person who doesn’t keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I’m going to go and do something about it.
What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.
You don’t ever want to be a mechanical basketball player, but as far as technique and things, I like to have certain check points in my shot, certain things that I can count on and think about. It kind of helps me to be consistent.
I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren’t just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.
Some people don’t have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.
Certain things come naturally, and tackling wasn’t one of them; I’d sometimes go a bit over the top when I was younger.
My whole life, my strength was my technical ability and my vision and being able to see certain things on the field.
I don’t look at certain things on TV anymore. I don’t listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don’t listen to it. It’s funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn’t even realize how much cursing it had in it.
I’m just picky about certain things in the videos, so I’m always switching out things that look or sound better.
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that’s one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I’m on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.
It’s funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I’ll say, ‘That was my dad right there.’
It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we’re very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
As naturally athletic as I’m gifted to be, where certain things came easily, I always rely on my brain first.
Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.
There’s a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish – in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
There are things that should be allocated to states’ rights – that’s Gryffindor – and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.
Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.
You have an hour and a half or two hours – maybe two and a half hours – in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It’s like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.
Our skin colours may vary, but what’s upstairs – there’s certain things we’ve all got in common.
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about – as actors, when we transform into a character, we empathize with those moments.
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.
I want to say something very clearly. I understand that I’m a self-confident person who might come off with the wrong attitude sometimes, but I don’t mean to. I just believe in certain things, and I know exactly what I want. I’ve always sacrificed things in order to become the best musician I could be.
I think coming from a big family, it helps you to keep your sense of humor about certain things… even politics.
