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“You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give.”

“You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.”

Knows Sometimes Reason Numbers Down And Rhyme Music Business Rhyming

Author:Barry McGuire

“You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.”

Thinking Knows Should Testament New Testament Old Testament

Author:Steven Wright

“You know, the next time you're guilty of anything, the next time you're charged with anything, try saying, "Hey, hey, hey, I didn't mean to run the stop sign." Or, "I didn't mean to leave the bar and get behind the wheel. I really didn't. I didn't mean to get behind the wheel after having some adult beverages." See if that works for you. And if you're saying it's not the same thing, yes, it is.”

Trying Mean Running Guilty Next Time

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.”

Thinking Knows Important School Courses Teach Risk Design Starting Financial Available Debt Versions Grades Relevant Literacy Grades In School Financial Literacy

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.”

Knows Wells Real Christianity Work Out Real Life Great Simpsons

Author:Homer

“You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.”

Knows America Hollywood Millionaire Billionaire

Author:Bill Maher

“You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.”

Knows Reason Complicated Controversial Neutrality Net Neutrality

Author:Tim Wu

“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

Knows Way Seems Found Design Development Accountants Animator Bookkeepers

Author:Walt Disney

“You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.”

Knows I Can Wonderful Honest Golf Honestly Oscars Wonderful Things Tournaments Untouchables Golf Tournaments

Author:Sean Connery

“You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.”

Knows Angel Yankees Gears Goodwill New York Yankees

Author:Chili Davis

“You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.”

People Knows Men Mean Littles Film Cold Budgets Very Cool Indie Films Mean Man

Author:Louis C. K.

“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.”

Ifs Knows World Made Different War Today Actors Struggle Periods Twenties Tired War Of The Worlds Dancer World War I Roaring Roaring Twenties

Author:James Cagney

“You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.”

Knows Mean Long Opinion Weapons Destruction Stakes Razors Discarded Racks Suppressing Philistines

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

Source: The Razor's Edge

“You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.”

People Knows Novel Personal Experiences Really Deep

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.”

People Knows Shows Research Percent Cells Stem Polls Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Nancy Reagan

“You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.”

Knows Way Believe Wells Kind Said Ends Government Form I Believe Process Democracy Worst Primaries Phrases Be Kind Confusing Forms Of Government

Author:Geoffrey Cowan

“You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.”

Knows Writing Stories Process Like You Discovery Expected Documentaries

Author:William Shatner

“You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.”

Thinking Knows Wells Said Ideas Stories Process Chance Machines Radical Back Again Contingency Well Oiled Machines

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.”

Knows Purpose Effort Reconciliation Filibuster

Author:Dick Durbin

“You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.”

Knows Want Stills Hands Wanted Speak Difficult Heard Music Is Cat Radio Difficult Times

Author:Ice T

“You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.”

Knows America Film Fun Stuff Special Effects Rewards Giants Captains Special Effects Fun Stuff

Author:Chris Evans

“You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'”

People Knows Two Home Courses Felt Cities Decades Posts Brown Horrific Sad Things

Author:Mira Nair

“You know, the same percentage of people are gay and lesbian as are left-handed. Let's try to figure that out. How can it be that a left-handed person can get married to another left-handed person. Left-handed people can do anything they want. . . . I say, give homosexuals the same rights we give left-handed people.”

People Knows Want Giving Trying Persons Left Can Do Rights Figures Gay Married Homosexual Percentages Left Handed

Author:Peter Camejo

“You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Light Happens Eye Past Courses Chance Darkness Our Lives Journey Findings Smallest Blink Blink Of An Eye

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.”

Knows Way Heart Self Song Conscious Good Things Self Conscious

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.”

People Knows States Wish Emotion Standards Negative Tired Pleasant Somewhere Else Negative Emotions Positive Emotions

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope”

Knows Lost Streets Safe Filled Rays Pope Palaces Vipers Ray Of Hope

Author:Bob Dylan

“You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.”

Knows Next Levels Entertainment Bowls Super Bowl Next Level

Author:will.i.am

“You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.”

Knows Men World Made Film Difficult Technology Doubt This World Building Tough Structure Arguing No Doubt Labour Interiors Caves Right Place Difficult Things Exterior

Author:Chris Sanders

“You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)”

People Knows Love Is And Love Life And Love

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace

“You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.”

Thinking Knows Want Mind Waste Wasting Time Employed

Author:Joss Whedon

“You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.”

Knows War Hatred Incredibles Civil War Bloody Hippie

Author:T Bone Burnett

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.”

Thinking Knows War Talking Issues Security Truth Is Decided Importance Iraq Patriotism Substitutes Chests Flags National Security Pins September 11 Iraq War Speaking Out True Patriotism

Author:Barack Obama

“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.”

Knows Believe Humans Play Character Body Actors Human Beings Consciousness Truth Is Instruments Wheels Collectives Life Experience Violin

Author:John C. Reilly

“You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.”

Thinking Knows Demand Errors Committed Skepticism Memes Congruence

Author:Tim Ward

Source: Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds

“You know, the vibrancy of the black church, the black businesses that employ so many people, the opportunities that so many families are working to provide for their kids. There's a lot that we should be proud of and we should be supporting and lifting up.”

People Knows Should Kids Opportunity Black Church Proud Be Proud Lifting Vibrancy Black Church Lifting Up

Author:Hillary Clinton

“You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.”

Knows Way Art Sound Taught Painting Photography Photographer Description Art History

Author:Chuck Close

“You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.”

Knows Philosophy Whole Weakness Combination Ads

Author:Evan Parker

“You know, the world’s not running out of oil. There’s all kinds of oil left in all kinds of places. …We’re never going to run out of oil. But what the world is going to run out of, indeed, what the world has already run out of, is the oil you can afford to burn.”

Knows World Kind Running Left Oil All Kinds

Author:Jeff Rubin

“You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath”

Knows Firsts Names Fiction Breaths Mirrors Solitary Unseen

Author:Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.”

Knows Way Trying Wells Enough Causes Saws Directors Casts Changelings

Author:Amy Ryan

“You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Today Political Opportunity Politics Race Sitting Texas Governors Timing Sitting Around

Author:Laura Bush

“You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.”

Knows Certain Sound Policy Bites Translate Sound Bites

Author:Barack Obama

“You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.”

Knows Way Running Guy Easier

Author:Justina Chen

“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”

Ifs Knows Way Want Should Mean Made Two Reason Bigs Care Differences Poet Woods What If Should I Shut Up Who Cares Two Ways Two Roads

Author:Gary D. Schmidt

“You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.”

Knows Jobs Faces Fire Flying Noses Primates Never Expect

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: The Dark-Hunters

“You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.”

People Knows Country Today Born Faults Sane Monty

Author:Graham Chapman

“You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.”

Knows Guarantees Prognosis

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity”

Knows Mean Levels Television Diversity News Areas Organization Radio Newspapers Magazines Operations Print Parity Television News

Author:Connie Chung

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