Knowing Quotes - Page 9

• Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mean, Worry, Buttons

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. March 6, 2009.

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• The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Fun, Comedian, Knowing Others

  "Takes One to Know One". Interview with David Steinberg, www.latimes.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, People, Clear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, People, Healthy

  "CNN Live Today" with Leon Harris, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

  Jessica Simpson

  Courage, Stupid, Thinking

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• Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

  Peter Singer

  Behaviour

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2011.

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• We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, World, Matter

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Hate, Fall

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• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  Tabitha Soren

  Gossip, Doe, Helping

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• When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kids, People, Appreciate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Helping, Help Me

  "Power House". Interview with Emmie Twombly, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2006.

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• I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

  Rod Stewart

  Careers, Secret, Want

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• I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

  Angie Stone

  People, Joy, Special

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• If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Perfect, Different

  "Pacing It" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Names, Issues

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• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Skins, Needs

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• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Years, Culture, Firsts

  "The bedsit epiphany". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Patriotism

  Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

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• I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Creepy, Underwear

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• I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Workout, Feelings, Finishing

  "Jenna's Tips For Getting Through A Tough Workout". www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

  Johnny Vegas

  Dad, Real, Sleep

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• All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Religion, Islam, Failing

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• It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

  Emma Watson

  Doors, Giving, Judging

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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