Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Will Rogers An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Spiro T. Agnew An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
    Spiro T. Agnew
    39th Vice President of the United States, (1918 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
    A Man Without a Country
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Assata Shakur And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Billy Sunday And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bill Brandt And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bob Dylan And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bailey And the thing is, I'm amazed they went with Obama at all, you know, I mean, I thought Hilary would have been a shoe-in, but no. Apparently America's got an issue with gender, not with race. Huh. So, um...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Buddy Rich And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Greenwood Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Agnes Martin Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Alan Alda Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Alex Haley Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Barbra Streisand Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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