Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Bruce Springsteen I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • William Lyon Phelps I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Bryan Batt I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Anthony Trollope I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Anne Lamott I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Paine I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Clarence Darrow I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
    Source: Definitions - Scholium
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Charles Dickens I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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