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Knows Quotes by Woody Allen

38 Knows quotes by Woody Allen

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Woody Allen’s take on knowledge is laced with his trademark neurotic humor, turning existential dread into witty observation. Across 38 quotes, he invites you to laugh at the absurdity of certainty while pondering the deeper questions that keep us up at night.

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It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

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I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

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I don't know enough to be incompetent.

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Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

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The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

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Don't worry, I know almost exactly what I'm doing.

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I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

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You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

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I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers,…

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Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they…

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I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

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How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

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I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit…

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See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

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I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or…

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I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York.…

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When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as…

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See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they…

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The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my…

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The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I…

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There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in…

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I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who…

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Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain…

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In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate…

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When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You…

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I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar…

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Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work…

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If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do…

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It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

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As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.

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Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation…

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My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.

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Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

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Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

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My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

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My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in…

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What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man…

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Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and…

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I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't…

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

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There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

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You can't ride two horses with one behind.

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Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

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