- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know Quotes
Quotes on knowing and being known.
These quotes explore both sides of 'know' - the sharp insight of knowing an opponent's weakness in sports, and the disorienting feeling of not knowing anyone after moving to a new city. Related reading includes Always Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn't know any of it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
- Being Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020