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• Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Want, Opinion

  "Eastwood, DiCaprio talk about making 'J. Edgar'". Korea Herald Interview, www.koreaherald.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

  Carlos Castaneda

  Who I Am, Juan, Don Juan

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• If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

  K.J. Parker

  Light, House, Burning

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• Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Education, Teacher, Book

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Missing, Done

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

  Paul Molitor

  Character, Goal, Mind

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• There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

  Kin Hubbard

  Two, Literature, Way

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• Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Grateful, Standards

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• It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Physics, Knows

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.310, Random House

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• I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Feelings, Knows

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• When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

  Kin Hubbard

  Retirement, Work, Differences

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• I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Boys, Thinking, Differences

  "Twilight Scribe Melissa Rosenberg On Sopranos-esque Penoza and Jessica Jones vs. Wonder Woman". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. November 17, 2011.

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• It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

  Geddy Lee

  Battle, Records, Dynamics

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 25, 2012.

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• No degree of prosperity could justify
  the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to
  make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or
  even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself,
  a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man.
  The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man
  as if people did not matter at all.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rumor, Literature, Legends

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• Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

  William Shatner

  Later In Life, Found, University

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• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  James Thurber

  Night, Lasts, Blind

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• History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mean, Men, Self

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• Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reading, Passion, Temptation

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• Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Years, Hygiene, Facts

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• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

  Alan Greenspan

  Lying, Moving, Ignorance

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• If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of numerous lives. Nobody knows how many times you have been born, and how many societies have crushed you. And each time a different society, and all these societies destroying you in different ways... this is why you carry so many inner contradictions.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Different, Would Be

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• That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.

  Joe

  Exciting, Great Things, Happens

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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