Not Knowing Quotes - Page 17

• You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

  John Fowles

  Knowing, United States, Prejudice

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

  Alberto Manguel

  Children, Book, Night

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Confused, Men

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• You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

  Russell Crowe

  Knowing, Want, Film

  "Russell Crowe and Director Ridley Scott Interview ROBIN HOOD – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  Jack Dee

  Years, Knowing, Firsts

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• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Xunzi

  Dog, Numbers, Knowing

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Jobs, Player, Night

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  Sam Shepard

  Real, Knowing, Alive

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• It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Knowing, Next, Moments

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

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• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  Sam Claflin

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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

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• I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

  Anne Enright

  Character, Knowing Everything, Rooms

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Children, Book

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• I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Thinking, Knowing, World

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• We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Knowing, Dumb

  Song: Blasphemy, Album: Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

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• The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!

  Paul Feig

  Knowing, Order, People

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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• I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

  Hiro Murai

  Knowing, People, Feelings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

  Petra Haden

  Knowing, Normal, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself.

  Leonardo Drew

  Artist, Knowing, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to be seen; they go out at night, they hide, they don't want to be shown. It's very interesting genetically that they have to hide from us actually. Between themselves, they smell each other, but there is this thing of hiding, of suspicion.

  Michal Rovner

  Animal, Night, Smell

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

  James Fallows

  Thinking, Knowing, Japan

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  War, Circles, Knowing

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• I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Who I Am, Clothes

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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