Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Diane Arbus A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923 - 1971)
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  • T. S. Eliot A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Woody Allen A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Baldwin A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Cameron Diaz Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Billy Burke Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • Allen Klein Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Erica Jong Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Mary Kay Ash Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Woody Allen After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
    Love and Death (1975)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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