Quotes with know-it-all

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 8447.

  • Bernice Johnson Reagon At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Avi Arad At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Simon Sinek Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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  • Will Durant Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Mark Twain Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bryce Harper Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Wernher von Braun Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
    Wernher von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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