Know How Quotes - Page 26

• The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

  Channing Tatum

  Mirrors, Directors, Dresses

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

  Andy Rooney

  Kids, Use, Computer

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• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Mammals, Humans

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• Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

  Dean Martin

  Party, Ego, Mouths

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• Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

  William Feather

  Compliment, Complaints, Knows

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• Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Treats, Knows

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• I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jail Time, Judging, Decision

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

  Lucy Larcom

  Perfect, Waiting, Musical

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.

  David Carradine

  Couple, Training, Want

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• Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it.

  David Carradine

  Fun, Guy, Feel Good

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• There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

  Primo Levi

  Courage, Men, Dignity

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Art, Discipline, Century

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

  Herb Caen

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

  George Matthew Adams

  Games, Play, World

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Fighting, Advice

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• Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.

  Frank Zappa

  Men, Elephants, Differences

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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• None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

  Thomas Cole

  Men, Hands, Wilderness

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• You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Down And, Facts

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Success, Men, Errors

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• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  George Sanders

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

  George Brett

  Games, Support, Special

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• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Keys, Guitar, Knowing

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• It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

  Holly Near

  Important, Musician, Lines

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