Know How Quotes - Page 29

• Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

  Sandra Bullock

  Integrity, Mouths, Bigger

  "Sandra Bullock to Lauer: On adoption". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.newsday.com.

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• I don't know how to play easy.

  Ray Knight

  Play, Easy, Knows

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• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.

  William Peter Blatty

  Believe, Order, Years

  "Fictional character: Col. Vincent Kane". The Ninth Configuration, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

  Howard Gardner

  Organization, Long, People

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• If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

  Steve Carell

  Levels, Might, Jerk

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

  Steve Carell

  Home, Kids, People

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2010.

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• I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Real, Skills, Rooms

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• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  Bar Refaeli

  Sports, People, Secret

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• If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.

  Chandra Wilson

  Real, People, Giving

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

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• So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on New Girl, and what my experience on Veronica Mars was like. Everybody was just so great.

  Max Greenfield

  Girl, Strong, People

  "Max Greenfield on his current role on New Girl and his Veronica Mars history". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

  Toby Young

  Acceptance, Thinking, Long

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• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  Eve Arnold

  Children, Poverty, Birth

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  Paget Brewster

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

  Swizz Beatz

  Pieces, Artwork, Mines

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• I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

  Adam Brody

  Stuff I Like, Soul, Wish

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

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• It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

  Adrien Brody

  People, Appreciate, Support

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• My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

  Alton Brown

  People, Giving, Way

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• I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

  Dave Brubeck

  Brother, House, Kitchen

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• I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Want, Heat

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

  Joe Biden

  Feels, Knows, Presumptuous

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• I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

  Julie Bowen

  Kids, Three, Care

  "Julie Bowen: I Wanted One Baby – Not Two!" by Anya Leon, celebritybabies.people.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Routine

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, Should Have, Car

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• I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.

  Rachel Bilson

  Guy, My Boyfriend, Hanging Out

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• I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

  Rick Baker

  Teenager, Monsters, Doe

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