Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Buffalo Bill So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
    Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Arthur Hiller So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Bill Bruford So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Haniel Long So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Calista Flockhart So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Downer So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Brooke Burke So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Barack Obama So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
    Source: Atlas Shrugged (1957) Part II sect 2
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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