Well Known Quotes

• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Native American, Steps

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, People, President

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

  Raj Chetty

  Unemployment, Benefits, Duration

  Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

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• Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

  Joshua Slocum

  Steps, Wells, Known

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.103, Applewood Books

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Theatre, Tvs, Recycling

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Book, Thinking

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• Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Faces, Purpose

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• I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

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• It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

  Vince Vaughn

  Gun, Sound, Hammers

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Funeral, Four, Grants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

  Toby Jones

  Drama, Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.

  Edd Doerr

  Acceptance, College, Government

  Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez (1991). “Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid”

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• It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Horse, Health, Doctors

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Prayer, Heart, Phrases

  Herbert Lockyer (1990). “All the Prayers of the Bible”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Curves, Twists

  "Fortaelleren Asger Jorn" by Gunnar Jespersen, (p. 121), 1984.

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• It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Effort, Filling In, Way

  "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos, Prentice-Hall, 1956.

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• Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Government, Bravery, Essentials

  Oliver Hazard Perry, Citizen of Massachusetts (1834). “A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott”, p.24

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

  Enver Hoxha

  Yugoslavia, October Revolution, Special

  "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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