Known Quotes - Page 3

• I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

  Stephan Bonnar

  Retirement, Fighting, Mma

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

  Ryan Holiday

  Jerk, Made, Explicit

  Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin

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• Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Pain, Loss, Marijuana

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• Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.

  Bunny Yeager

  Beautiful, Hair, Numbers

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• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Lying, Gold, Well Known

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• Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.

  Carol Edgarian

  Heart, People, Forever

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• Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Good Things, Typecasting

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

  Vincent Cassel

  Father, Crazy, Light

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• I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

  Hugh Laurie

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

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• It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Copying, Machines, Comedy

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• I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with Jason Zabel, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I’ve found the man of my dreams. From the moment I met him it just felt like I’d known him forever. I was blown away. He’s the most incredible man. He’s so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I’ve never laughed, and he’s a great friend.

  Katie Holmes

  Dream, Men, People

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• Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Perfect, Guy

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• A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.

  Michael Rapaport

  Beautiful, Girl, Morning

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• How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

  Fred MacMurray

  Smell, Sometimes, Murder

  "Fictional character: Walter Neff". "Double Indemnity", 1944.

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• There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Strong, Flower, Doors

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

  Sophia Myles

  Character, Play, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

  Christina Ricci

  Play, Interesting, Life Is

  "Actress Christina Ricci". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2012.

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• Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

  Guy Ritchie

  Morning, Two, Bed

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Director Guy Ritchie And Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

  Lily Collins

  Country, Growing Up, Fun

  "Lily Collins interview: I'm not doing this for fame". Interview with Katie Mulloy, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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