“There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made.” KnowsMadePlayBodyFormCommunityDecisionPayPlayerLike YouIntentionDecision Making Author:Jill Stein
“I used to get defensive and react. Like you, I get pushed and pulled [backstage].... Sometimes people are rude to me, and I feel like, 'You know, guys, I'm just here trying to do my job....' And the reality is, everyone else is just trying to do their job...and sometimes they get on a power trip [and] you feel disrespected. But that's their problem. It's not my problem.” PeopleKnowsFeelsTryingSometimesProblemRealityJobsUsedGuyLike YouRudeDisrespectedPower Trip Author:Guido Palau
“I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.” ThinkingKnowsYearsBelieveKindLittlesFeelingsRememberMy OwnHellHappenedLike YouDadHappeningsSittingMy DadBest ThingsHeightOscarsRemember WhenMovie StarHypeDevastatedStardomBest Thing That Ever Happened To MeFeeling Great Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.” KnowsKindArtLike YouAppealsI Like YouInverse Author:Norm MacDonald
“In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be nourished by thinking about it? You've already ingested it, and you've excreted it, and that was two months ago. You had this fabulous meal. It's not going to keep you satiated today. You have to go out and get your next meal. For me, that's writing. I have to go out and hunt my next meal.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLongTwoBookTodayNextWinningLike YouMonthsEnjoyedMealsAwardsPublishingFabulousHuntsTwo MonthsPublishing BooksWinning Awards Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.” KnowsWantTryingKindMovingGamesEnergyFiguresLike YouDefeatCommunicatePopsScreensWitVideoAdsAbsorbingAdvertisers Author:Terry Gross
“You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.” KnowsWantFeelsShouldTryingWellsI CanBookShowsFiveLike YouBandShowing Off Author:Emily Haines
“As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.” KnowsWantWritingMovingRealizingLaughingKnow HowLike YouGoes OnJokesOkayI Like You Author:Baron Vaughn
“You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.” IfsKnowsWellsMeanAgeUsedMotherCertainCrazyLike YouDrunkEmbarrassedYour Best Friend Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.” IfsKnowsWantBigsLike YouDresses Author:Iman Shumpert
“When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like, "You know, you don't know what the trend is." I was like, "Look dog, I don't care about trends or your fashion sense. If I'm going to pay you money, this is where the shirt is going to end."” IfsKnowsLooksLongEndsCareWantedPayDogFashionLike YouDon't CareI Don't CareLeagueShirtsTrendsT ShirtTailors Author:Iman Shumpert
“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsMeanChildrenPersonsStillsI CanGrowsGrowing UpGrowingLike YouGrewPersonalityGrew UpMy FriendsRootsReally Like You Author:Ann Patchett
“I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.” KnowsBelieveLittlesIdeasPlayShowsBigsFeltBitsAudienceToo MuchRocksLike YouLittle BitExtraordinaryIntimateConcertsUnusualEnthusiasticLanesCherriesDowntownGreat ExperiencesBig IdeasTunaRock Concerts Author:Alex Timbers
“I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.” ThinkingKnowsHomeHappensKidsLike YouDadMy DadEmployedPaymentMortgage Author:Warren Buffett
“[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school, and they will explain themselves to you. So we got a hold of, like, 50 high-school yearbooks, including my mom's from 1925 or something, and we discovered that they're all the same.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantHumansLooksPersonsSaidSeemsSchoolDifficultLike YouMomBehaviorHigh SchoolIncludingPatternsMy MomHuman BehaviorYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantStatesHomeSchoolJobsAsksLostWalksLevelsWifeWeekLike YouMomDaughterPaidMalesShoesMilesWhat IfWorkplaceGood JobHarvardYour MomOur DaughterCrippledYour Daughter Author:Pam Grier
“I read reviews, I'm not going to lie to y'all. Like you know, I'll read 'em, but then, the next day I'm able to sort of shrug them off. But if something sort of sticks the next day, there's probably something to it. I just sort of really try to trust my gut on, on all that stuff.” IfsKnowsTryingAbleLyingNextStuffLike YouSticksGutsEmsReviewsNext Day Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.” IfsKnowsWantKindMeanPainGuySongCareersHeardHugeLike YouGoes OnCoupleBandAssPhoenixSweetheart Author:Mac DeMarco
“Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.” PeopleKnowsIdeasMightCultureCoursesStreetsLike YouDramaClothesRegardFancyOpera Author:Howard Rheingold
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingMeanPersonsEndsNextGoalInterestingSacrificeCrazyLike YouAmountBeatsGainsFinancialAssFirmHelpfulGet AheadCrazy World Author:Dane DeHaan
“At halftime [of Game 7], one of our oldest guys on the team, James Jones, came to me, and he's like, "Man, it's time for you to do something. You've been sleeping the whole playoffs, the whole final series." First couple of shots I got coming out, I was like, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot it." Fortunately they fell, and we started making our way back.” KnowsMenWayFirstsWholeGuyGamesSleepTeamLike YouCoupleShotsSeriesFinalsComing OutPlayoffsHalftime Author:J. R. Smith
“I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only I was like you in that movie," or "If only I could be with someone like you in that movie." And, you know, it's very flattering to hear that.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsWellsLastsLike YouHearingFlatteringSomeone You Like Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.” KnowsWellsHeartSaidTwoWantedThreeSoundRoomsRecordsWeekLike YouSellsGuitarLiving RoomMicrophones Author:Johnny Cash
“I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.” KnowsFeelsLooksEnoughLike YouPoliceTreatedHopelessGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:T.I.
“It's funny when guys don't like to talk about makeup. I'm like, "You know you're wearing makeup, right? We all are."” KnowsGuyLike YouMakeupWearing Makeup Author:Jon Hamm
“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPlayArtistWorryFiveLike YouThousandMusicianTwentiesClubsVideoLike MeFollowersTwenty FiveVenuesReally Like You Author:Joe Louis Walker
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsRealEnoughTermLike YouConcernIntentionFakeChicagoBeing RealSpitGood IntentionsBaltimore Author:Felicia Pearson
“I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind of a big, crazy Back to the Future comedy. So, of course, it's the Civil War - I play the banjo. I was just having a conversation with one of the producers about some of the material and he was like, 'You know, we have to work in a scene where you play the banjo. And I was like I'll get behind that.” KnowsKindWarPlayBigsCoursesBehindsComedyCrazyMaterialsLike YouSceneConversationScriptsProducersCivil WarBack In TimeBanjosGo Back In Time Author:Ed Helms
“Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsChildrenStillsSometimesChoicesJesusBitsBlackChristWhiteWalksTeachForeverThis WorldLike YouJesus ChristHatredOur ChildrenGuiltySeatsClassroomAmazedAnimosityLike YourselfBlack WhiteAccoladesBasic Education Author:Marva Collins
“I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.” PeopleKnowsSometimesFeelingsStuffHeardSonLike YouDaughterMy SonFar AwayInvitationsMontanaOur Daughter Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.” PeopleKnowsWantSometimesHelpingHappensGuyAsksStuffCommunityChanceOpinionCasesLike YouOptimisticHatefulMuslim Community Author:Keith Ellison
“[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I was even going to do it. And I was, like, "You just can't not do it." I think everybody was worried that it was going to sound like the guy from... is it The Simpsons?” IfsThinkingKnowsGuySoundLike YouCuriousWorriedAccentsCollaborators Author:Rob Lowe
“I feel like you have to use your energy, you have to use your resources to help those who don't have a voice. Whereas back in the day, you could say, "I didn't know about this. What was I supposed to do? One person can't make a difference." No, like, none of that's valid. You can make a difference, and you do have a voice.” KnowsFeelsPersonsHelpingUseEnergyVoiceDifferencesLike YouResourcesMaking A DifferenceBack In The DayYou Can Make A Difference Author:Lilly Singh
“When you're shopping, too, you feel like you're designing as you're shopping. You're like, 'I love this, but I wish it was shorter or I wish it was purple. I wish it was a different fabric,' you know. It starts there, but then when you have to start from scratch, it really comes with an idea first, and then... you want to tweak and then you come up with something else and you want to add to it or change. It's fun. It's like an ocean - you can do whatever.” KnowsWantFeelsFirstsIdeasDifferentFunWishCan DoDesignLike YouOceanAddCome UpShoppingFabricScratchesPurpleTweak Author:Rihanna
“Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingIdeasSoulBitsMeditationLike YouYogaPhilosopherContactAcceptableHippie Author:George Harrison
“There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things that my friends started to do. Like, they started to get phone calls from girls or like, you know, go and hang out 10, 11 at night, kind of going to the movies. There were just certain things that - it's not that I couldn't do all of those things. It's just that every choice was really deliberate and conscious and thought out and sort of balanced against the religion in a way where I felt - I wasn't necessarily trying to convert at 12 like [my mother] was.” KnowsWayTryingKindAbleMotherNightCertainChoicesGirlFeltTalkingLike YouConsciousMy FriendsPhonesHanging OutBalancedDeliberatePhone Calls Author:Mahershala Ali
“I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.” ThinkingKnowsProblemTodayGuyAttitudeGenerationsLike YouSmartTwentiesActivismCynicalCynicismSmarterBeing SmartOur Generation Author:Bill Ayers
“The thing about the summit region of Mount Washington, it can have areas that are flat and rolling. In those conditions, it's very difficult not to become disoriented, because it's not like you're on a face where you know what's up and what's down. You're on a flat surface. Every direction is the same in a white-out condition. And with wind speeds constantly changing direction, within a minute you have no idea where you are.” KnowsIdeasFacesDifficultWhiteMinutesConditionsWindLike YouAreasSurfaceSpeedNo IdeaRegionsFlatsWhere You AreRollingSummit Author:Hugh Herr
“I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.” KnowsKindPersonsI CanUsedEnjoyWalksBreakStreetsLike YouWalkingMy FriendsRidiculousSillyBreak Out Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“Like if you all were going to go out and one guy's like "you know what man I'm going to stay home I'm feeling kind of shitty," you go, "You faggot." That's what it means. It's about a guy wimping out, being a douchebag...it has nothing to do with your sexual orientation.” IfsKnowsMenKindMeanFeelingsHomeGuyLike YouOrientationDouchebags Author:Joe Rogan
“I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline they're just kidding for the most part. I don't know what they do with it, it's like you send them your book and they just hold it in their hands for like six months and I don't know why, and you realize you probably had more time.” ThinkingKnowsGivingYearsBookHandsRealizingStupidLike YouMonthsSixI've LearnedMore TimePublishersSix MonthsDeadlineJust Kids Author:Dave Barry
“Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.” KnowsSelfMotivationLike YouMedicineCuriosityDrivenUnfortunate Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.” KnowsWayFeelsCertainLike YouPerspectiveWho You AreCriticsTunesBubblesNaysayers Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingBelieveJobsSpeakI BelieveDealsStudyWorstLike YouConsciousDown AndI Believe InSpreadHypocriteBelieve In Allah Author:Rakim
“I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoTogetherSexTalkingLike YouArmsEightClueDepiction Author:Lena Dunham
“In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.” KnowsWayShouldSoundWalksLike YouDressesInstrumentsExtensions Author:Miles Davis
“I know too well how you can go from feeling like your sister knows you better than anyone else in the world, to feeling jealous of her, to wanting to strangle her ha-ha.” KnowsWorldWellsFeelingsLike YouJealous Author:Lee Kelly
“If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsPathPositionLike YouIntegrityWho You AreBetrayalCompromiseClueRight Path Author:Caroline Myss
“When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.” KnowsNeedsFeelsTryingWellsIdeasNextLostSpaceKnowingLike YouInternetEndureChecksEmptinessOnlineHelpfulHanging OutCracksNot KnowingNew IdeasEmailLost You Author:Miranda July
“I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsShouldMadeRunningFeltMistakeKnow HowDangerousLike YouMade A MistakeAdrenalineI've Made Mistakes Author:Danny Boyle