Do You Know Quotes - Page 30

• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

  Georg Buchner

  Life Is, Too Short, Humans

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act III, 1838.

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• Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Husband, Home, Work Out

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Followers, Want, Realizing

  Source: collider.com

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• In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

  Ben Harper

  Blessed, Want, Worst

  Song: One Road to Freedom, Album: Fight for Your Mind, 1995

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• Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

  Frank Loesser

  Girl, Brother, Women

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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vegetables, Vitamins And Minerals

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• Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

  Vernor Vinge

  Butterfly, Said, Wells

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.281, Macmillan

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• I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

  Nonie Darwish

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "We Must Begin to View the Jews in a Forgiving Light". Middle East Media Research Institute, March 2007.

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• Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

  Stanley Spencer

  Art, Knows, Art Is

  "Times Thievish Progress". Book by John Rothenstein, 1970.

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• Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Ocean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Iran may have attacked ISIS. Do you know how long it's been since I have been able to wear my "Go Iran" T-shirt?

  Conan O'Brien

  Isis, Iran, Long

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• Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.

  David Letterman

  Faces, Retiring, Scientology

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• Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine.

  David Letterman

  Brother, War, Iraq

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• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, California, Giving

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• How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Return, Awareness

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• I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

  Anne Heche

  Children, Memories, Thinking

  "Anne Heche Is Pregnant" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Chaos

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• The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Flames

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• My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Personal Opinions, Lakers

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• There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

  Katie Aselton

  Strong, Sex, Mean

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

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• Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People, Comfort, Needs

  Vincent Van Gogh (2003). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.437, Penguin UK

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, Liberty, Rebuilding

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• Do you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

  Serinda Swan

  Character, Play, Goodness

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