Quotes with know-nothings

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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Brea Grant Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carry Nation Oh, I tell you, ladies, you never know what joy it gives you to start out to smash a rumshop.
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  • Billy Eckstine Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brea Grant On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Bobby Seale On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Joan Didion On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Kofi Annan Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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