Well Known Quotes - Page 14

• people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

  Guy Debord

  Life, Reality, Greatness

  Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)

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• Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.

  Michel Seuphor

  Heritage, Munich, Truth Is

  Michel Seuphor (1964). “Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present”

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• Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Prayer, Heart, Phrases

  Herbert Lockyer (1990). “All the Prayers of the Bible”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Horse, Health, Doctors

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Book, Thinking

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• Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Faces, Purpose

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• What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.

  Edd Doerr

  Acceptance, College, Government

  Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez (1991). “Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid”

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• You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

  Toby Jones

  Drama, Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

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• It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

  Vince Vaughn

  Gun, Sound, Hammers

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Funeral, Four, Grants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  Sam Riley

  Hands, Wife, Germany

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

  Christine Lakin

  Laughter, Character, Kids

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• Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Air, Facts, Aliens

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Only You Can Save Mankind”, p.98, Random House

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• Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

  Walter Scott

  Real, Men, Ignorant

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.440

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• He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

  Stanley Walker

  Art, Entertainment, Confidential

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• ... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, University Professors, Republic

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.354, Macmillan

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• The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acting, Ruins

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Horse, Tired

  "Mick Jagger talks Stones tour, ticket prices and scalpers". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

  Karen DeCrow

  Feminist, Institutions, Century

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• Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Unconventional, Reason

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• When I was 15 years old I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, "This is what I want to do". So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  Karen Finerman

  Wall, Successful, Light

  "She's worth $100m, runs a $400m hedge fund, has two sets of twins and four nannies". Interview with Marianne MacDonald, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Latin, Thinking

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