Know How Quotes - Page 12

• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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• I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

  Anna Kendrick

  People, Want, Theater

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  John Lennon

  Fighting, Beard, Faces

  YouTube Chanel "Beatlemaniac1960"/ "John Lennon about violence", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2011.

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• You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Decision, President, Looks

  "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Skills, Rooms

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.89, Random House

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• In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

  Maya Angelou

  Makeup, Blood, Order

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• What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

  Roger Angell

  Phones, Mind, Breakfast

  "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.

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• My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

  Hedda Sterne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Interesting

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• Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

  Beatrice Wood

  Inspiration, Air, People

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Beach, Moving, Alaska

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• Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Long, Sitting, Stores

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• Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!

  Chalene Johnson

  Blessed, Able, Knows

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• It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

  Saul Perlmutter

  Morning, Interesting, Wake Up

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• I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life are fear, anger, confusion, doubt and despair. If we overcome those enemies who attack from within , we can attain a sure victory over any attack from without.

  Chris Bradford

  Real, Winning, Confusion

  Chris Bradford (2008). “The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, Book 1)”, p.184, Penguin UK

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• I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Sacrifice, People

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• Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

  Tim Krabbe

  Men, Thinking, Racing

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

  Charles Wagner

  People, Rich, Ifs

  Charles Wagner (1903). “The Simple Life”

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• Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Accomplished, Secret Law Of Attraction, Knows

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• My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

  Stephanie Klein

  Smart, School, Mean

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

  Trevor Rabin

  Elephants, People, Too Much

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• The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.

  Laurie Lee

  Wine, Dark, Islands

  Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

  Adriana Lima

  Daughter, Mean, Years

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• That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Air, Building Up, Sound

  "‘Fearless Felix’ Falls 24 Miles To Earth" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. October 14, 2012.

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