Quotes with know-it-all

Quotes 5601 till 5620 of 8447.

  • Beth Simone Noveck The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Adrian Cronauer The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • James Baldwin The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Boxer The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Source: Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Lord George Byron The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Bayard Taylor The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Source: Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
    Carson Grant
     
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  • Abraham Lincoln The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Orwell The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Kabbalah The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
    Kabbalah
     
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