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“I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.”

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Author:Matthew Lewis

“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.”

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Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.”

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Author:Andy Warhol

“We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.”

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Author:Common

“When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.”

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Author:Karen Dawn

“[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.”

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Author:Gemma Cairney