Well Known Quotes

• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Native American, Steps

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

  Raj Chetty

  Unemployment, Benefits, Duration

  Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

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• Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

  Joshua Slocum

  Steps, Wells, Known

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.103, Applewood Books

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• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, People, President

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Theatre, Tvs, Recycling

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Office, Presidential, Progress

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  Naomie Harris

  Jobs, Children, Drama

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  Damien Hirst

  Cards, Credit, Hitting

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• I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

  Eddie Izzard

  Comedy, Wells, Wanted

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

  Naveen Jain

  Mean, Exercise, Brain

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• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  Calamity Jane

  Tolls, Littles, Reputation

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

  Elton John

  World, Homosexual, Wells

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• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  Carl Jung

  People, Important, Wells

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, People, Young

  Interview with Daniel Radcliffe, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

  Neil Oliver

  Jobs, London, Paper

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. People love to read stories. They like to know you as a real person who has your struggle, pain, success and failure, etc. One well-known example is Jared Fogle's weight loss story which made millions of dollars for Subway. Start to collect your stories from today and use them in your ad campaigns.

  David Ogilvy

  Pain, Real, Struggle

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• I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.

  Roger Glover

  Men, Careers, Broken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  E. W. Howe

  Hope, Aging, Should

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• A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Hard Work, Humor

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• I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

  George Clooney

  Get Well, Later In Life, Lucky

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• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  Barbara Bush

  Book, White, House

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