Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Carmen Electra People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Source: Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.
    Source: FAQ: Did you really say that?
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • J. G. Ballard People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Earl Nightingale People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Erica Jong Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
    Source: De zee (2008) 98
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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