Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • John Milton Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • B. Washington Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
    B. Washington
     
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  • Vikram Seth Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    Source: From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ann Bancroft Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Michael Caine First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
    Michael Caine
     
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  • Angela Davis First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Beatrice Wood First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bill Kurtis First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Condon First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Barry Levinson First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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