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“Its really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that its not going to be in a positive way.”

Way Hard Attention Knowing Center Of Attention

Author:Darlene Cates

“Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.”

People Ifs Want Needs Stills Enough Next Acting Knowing Minutes Hey One Minute

Author:Jack Davenport

“And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.”

World Long Soul Body Beautiful Hours Half Morning Knowing Missing Bed Charm Prime Fragrance Back Again Sloth Marvellous Long Hours Blessedness

Author:Sarah Smiley

“Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say to Mr. X as he confronts the morass of his problem.”

People Way Should Littles Problem Games Deals Situation Knowing Theory Behave

Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.”

“you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.”

Real Courage Knowing Bravery Spite Real Courage

Book:Shadow of a Bull

Source: Shadow of a Bull

“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”

Loses Knowing Football Losing Closest Losing Myself Knowing Myself

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.”

Heart Persons Stills Matter Pain Father Knowing My Heart No Matter What Complicated Lives Of Others Complicated Things

Book:Solo: A Memoir of Hope

Source: Solo: A Memoir of Hope

“Conflict is easy because weve all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.”

Needs Easy Knowing Conflict Connections Genuine

Author:Melonie Diaz

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

Ifs Dies Bits Knowing Saving Shore Fahrenheit 451 Book

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.”

Persons Country Political Speak Rooms Secret Knowing Effects Welfare Not Knowing Mars Entry Speaks Out Referring Disloyal Untrustworthy

Author:Chanakya

“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”

Thinking Mind Soul Whole Remember Universe Individual Knowing Conditions Objects Activity Eternal Former Immortal One Time Passive Identical

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

“Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'”

Trying Said War Self Belief Stars Knowing Self Knowing

Author:Gene Simmons

“I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.”

Thinking Mean Persons Might Knowing Subjects Fronts Photograph Landscape Involvement Snapping

Author:Frans Lanting

“Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.”

Easy Knowing Appreciate Grateful

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.”

Knows Courses Realizing Born Know How Knowing Imagine

Author:Katherine Paterson

“It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree”

World Made Different Real Knowing Tree Hearing Knowing Something

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.”

Knowing Guessing

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.”

People Knowing Team Clinton Rivals Cabinets Tease Tease Me

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.”

Faces Spirit Lying Water Effort Knowing Grace Air Bears Embrace Creator Hawks Swimmer

Author:Denise Levertov

“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.”

Knows Writing Persons Sometimes Feelings Behinds Knowing Dying

Book:Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.”

People Kind Knowing Skills Overcoming Convinced Diligent

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).”

Has Beens Facts Knowing Objects Moved Impression Tendencies Transformed

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“Nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

“I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.”

Kind Stills Hard Would Be Running Courses Knowing Rights Gay Office Decided Agendas Gay Rights Being Gay Dishonorable

Author:Barney Frank

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”

Enough Dark Knowing Ignorance Curiosity Not Knowing

Author:Alain de Botton

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)”

Dies Knowing One Thing Dying Ships

Book:The Best of Richard Matheson

Source: The Best of Richard Matheson

“The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.”

Ifs May Important Real Stories Joy Felt Knowing Trouble Glad Kingdoms Happy Endings Real Joy

Author:Lynda Barry

“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.”

Men World Should Has Beens Interest Knowing Reflection Should Have Surround Should Have Been

Author:Emile Durkheim

“The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Should Firsts Heart Mean Self Spirit Turns Christianity Knowing My Heart Circumstances Holy Evidence Bases Give Me Available Witness Holy Spirit

Author:William Lane Craig

“Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.”

Would Be Knowing Industry Judgment Gun Lawsuit Good Business Untimely Death

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“I felt like looking at the season to this point, we probably hadn't taken enough shots downfield to loosen thing up, ... It does serve a purpose even if you don't hit it. There's nothing that will get a cornerback to back off a little bit than knowing he got beat even if you hit it or not.”

Ifs Littles Doe Enough Purpose Felt Bits Knowing Taken Little Bit Beats Shots Seasons

Author:Mark Richt

“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.”

Wells Together Natural Pleasure Gone Knowing Car Areas Corners Guides Rhythm Excitement Working Together Pace Climax

Author:Jackie Stewart

“The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.”

World Trying Humans Film Process Natural Animal Knowing Glimpse Natural History

Author:David Attenborough

“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”

Firsts Forever Knowing First Time Knowing Nothing Timer Always Knowing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”

World Emotion Knowing Path Effects Hatred Know Yourself Overlooked Adverse Underestimated Adverse Effects

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.”

Government America Night Sleep Knowing Protected Pickles Ketchup

Author:Orrin Hatch

“The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.”

People Want Littles Moments Shows Eye Kids Remember Millions Knowing Band Connections Meetings That Moment Your Mom Little Moments

Author:Joan Jett

“Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.”

Knows Want Hard Might Guy Boys Knowing Concerned England Core Be You Hard Core

Author:Mick Jagger

“Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.”

Wells Asks Knowing Empowerment Profound Liberation Deep Things

Author:Ann Druyan

“I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.”

People Thinking Want Reason Knowing Smart What You Want Being Smart Knowing What You Want

Author:Miley Cyrus

“My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.”

Thinking World Want Littles Lines Knowing Conservative Who I Am

Author:John Legend

“We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.”

Should May Knowing Should Have Charity Insult

Author:John Lithgow

“I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.”

People Thinking Believe Hard Government Would Be Wanted Nations Knowing Special Labor Representatives

Author:Benjamin Carson

“It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.”

Way Want Doe Important Helping School Culture Knowing Female Strategy Males Traditional African American Maps Dominant Advise Dominant Culture Females And Males

Author:Bell Hooks

“I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.”

People Thinking Humans May Reality Used Knowing Huge Succeed Tendencies

Author:Charlie Munger

“The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.”

Art Knowing

Author:Robert Fripp

“Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.”

Important Sometimes Knowing Letting Go

Book:Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

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