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• Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

  Peter Welch

  Law, Ideas, Years

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• I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

  William Jackson

  Children, Successful, Animal

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• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  Cara Castronuova

  Ideas, Boxing, Beats

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• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  Randy Wayne White

  Florida, Ideas, Labyrinth

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• I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.

  Sonya Walger

  Mean, Ideas, People

  "IGN Interview: Lost's Sonya Walger". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. September 13, 2007.

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• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Thinking, Order

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is Rule No. 1. It is the only rule. This may sound absurdly simple, but most people have no idea how profound this rule is. Most people struggle financially because they do not know the difference between an asset and a liability.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Struggle, Simple, Ideas

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.72, Robert Kiyosaki

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• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Winning, Ideas

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ideas, Suits Of Armor, Flesh

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• The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Ideas, Bird

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.336, Cambridge University Press

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• When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Ideas, Office, Ordinary

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

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• I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Writing, Ideas, Way

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• I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

  Sonya Walger

  Ideas, People, Fiction

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• I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.

  Prabal Gurung

  Dream, Kids, Ideas

  "Prabal Gurung: From Nepal to global fashion stardom". www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Ideas, People, Looks

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• Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

  Ernest Renan

  Dream, Jesus, Ideas

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• The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Children, War, Ideas

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Ideas

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

  Ann Landers

  Husband, Women, Ideas

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• I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

  Oren Moverman

  Optimistic, Ideas, Next

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• They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

  Tom Waits

  Filling Up, Years, Ideas

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• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  Cameron Russell

  Ideas, People, Giving

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