Do You Know Quotes - Page 25

• In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

  Jack Dee

  Taken, Doors, Years

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• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  Edward Heath

  Retirement, Vat, Firsts

  "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Winning, Games, Dating

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• "What is honor?" "Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man's gift to himself." "Do women have it?" "Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in 'em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so." "How do you know you have it?" "Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya' and speaks to ya'. All ya' need do is listen".

  Rob Roy MacGregor

  Women, Heart, Giving

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• In 2006, the Blockbuster board got together and said, ‘Do you know anyone using Netflix.’ …Look how that worked out. That is what happens when you put ten 80-year-old guys in a room…Be on record. Be on the right side of history. You don’t want to be the person that supported the Blockbuster decision.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Guy, Decision

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• Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Differences, People, Advertising

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• Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

  Bob Hawke

  Morality, Credibility, Knows

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• Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

  Juan Gelman

  Book, Thinking, Air

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• Do you know how it is when one wakes
  at night suddenly and asks,
  listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
  insatiable?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Heart, Night, Listening

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• Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Greatness, Choices, Risk

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.61, Crown Business

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack LaLanne

  Dog, Morning, Coffee

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• I’m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I don’t want to go home. We have beds at the training ground and I go home sometimes and say to my wife: 'Do you know something, I didn’t want to leave work today!' It’s not a slight on my wife. It’s just a great position to be in when you love your job so much.

  Phil Neville

  Jobs, Love You, Home

  "Phil Neville, Goodison's stepson, revels in return to his home from home". Interview with Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

  Anatol Rapoport

  Ideas, Progress, Unorthodox

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• Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

  Ed Thigpen

  Kings, Queens, Thrones

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• To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

  Billy Boyd

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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

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• "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

  Arthur Porges

  Mushrooms, Devil, Saturn

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• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  Abraham Polonsky

  Knows

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• If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Moving On, Graduation

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• Do you know who else is hot? My mom! My Mom's HOT!!!

  Paul Heyman

  Mom, Hot, Knows

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• Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.

  Joseph Cook

  Lying, Book, Dying

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