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Author:Charlize Theron

“It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.”

Giving Happens Eye Easy Forget Known Happened Movement Notes Prize Cliffs Riot Mississippi Atrocities Touchstones Eye On The Prize Jackson Mississippi

Author:Tate Taylor

“Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.”

Long Done Spiritual Christ Known Scripture Kingdoms Fulfilled Fulfilling

Book:The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ

Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ

“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.”

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Author:Veronica Webb

“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.”

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Author:Jeffrey Wright

“Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.”

Thinking Facts Known Seeing Essentials Invisible Visible Living Things Gaudy

Author:Georges Rouault

“Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.”

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Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.”

Inspirational Known Possibility Buddhism Offers Immortality Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.”

Inspirational Has Beens Existence Known Conditions Awareness Buddhism One Day Sight Infinite Train Stations Perpetual Timeless Arrivals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”

Thinking World Years Has Beens Science Found Natural Animal Known Thousand Ten Tests Filled Cancer Coffee Cups Chemicals Tested Coffee Cup Pesticides

Author:Bruce Ames

“The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.”

Ifs Littles Known Coffee Justification Farewell Courtesy

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.”

Thinking Hands Opportunity Known Wonder Busy Native American Busy Life

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”

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Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.”

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Author:Laurent Lamothe

“For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.”

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Author:Max von Laue

“I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.”

Wells Film Known Well Known

Author:Patrice Leconte

“I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.”

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Author:Rebecca Lobo

“I don't want to become known as just a body.”

Want Body Known

Author:Taylor Lautner

“Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!”

Children Known Television Internet Happenings Hot Traditional Making Love

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.”

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Author:Grant Morrison

“I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.”

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Author:Jack McBrayer

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

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Author:Lamorne Morris

“I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a Trek person. I feel about Trek the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.”

Way Feels Persons Known Members

Author:China Mieville

“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.”

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Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.”

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Author:Holly Madison

“In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.”

Knows Film Known Fit Behave Civilians

Author:Joe Wright

“Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.”

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Author:Kevin Whately

“It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.”

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Author:S. Robson Walton

“When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.”

People Known Cooking Compliment

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.”

Wells Running Moving Law Force Known Fields Determined Well Known Magnitude Magnetic Moving In Electrons Magnetic Fields Magnetic Force

Author:Pieter Zeeman

“I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.”

Thinking Ideas Today Film Realizing Known Successful Easier Studios Executives Territory Remakes Fresh Ideas

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”

Persons I Can Speak My Own Known Slavery Observation

Book:Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

Source: Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

“I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.”

People Different Faces Certain Known

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.”

Moving Water Known Size Lifts Hops Swimming Spy Athletic Slides Whales Slap Seaweed Flukes

Author:Tim Cahill

“When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.”

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Author:Jake Pitts

“We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.”

Kids Past Known Havens Our Past Grandparent