Not Knowing Quotes - Page 7

• Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing in someone, loving them, nurturing them, you can bring out that potential.

  Michael Gove

  Believe, Knowing, Parent

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• People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.

  Richard Masur

  Beach, Real, Ocean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

  Kieran Bew

  Knowing, Magic, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Knowing, Empowerment, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

  Russell Crowe

  Knowing, Want, Film

  "Russell Crowe and Director Ridley Scott Interview ROBIN HOOD – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

  Ariana Grande

  Knowing, Thrill, Be Prepared

  "Interview: 2012 must-know - Ariana Grande". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25,2012.

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• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  Jack Dee

  Years, Knowing, Firsts

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• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Xunzi

  Dog, Numbers, Knowing

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• Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Knowing, Work Out

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.

  Billy Collins

  Clever, Reading, Talking

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

  Courtney Barnett

  Knowing, Style, Mind

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Years, Knowing, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

  Philippa Perry

  Order, Knowing, Needs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  Aaron Peirsol

  Beach, Knowing, Appreciate

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

  Frank Fairfield

  Years, Play, Knowing

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.

  Terry Gross

  Children, Kids, Knowing

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• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Years, Knowing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.

  Yoshi Wada

  Mom, Father, School

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead of them not knowing about it, now we have these gadgets and we can learn about it and not tell our parents and get ourselves into potentially dangerous situations.

  Sarah Steele

  School, Knowing, Dangerous Situations

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.

  Rahki

  Artist, Thinking, Knowing

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• Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

  Lauren Myracle

  Class, Knowing, People

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• I am the lucky duck because I have family . My wonderful aunt and uncle are letting me crash on their couch, which isn't really a couch...I have a room! It's been kind of a blessing for the cast because all of us have gotten so close, not knowing anyone in Atlanta. All the guys on the show have become kind of like brothers, and all of us girls are pretty inseparable.

  Candice Accola

  Girl, Brother, Uncles

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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