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270 They Knew quotes by 234 unique authors
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Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape…
— Ellen Sussman
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Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage…
— Steve Kroft
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Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You…
— Will Rogers
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Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought…
— Charley Reese
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When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
— Criss Jami
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You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of…
— Stephen Leacock
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
— Robert Frost
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
— Rachel Cusk
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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from…
— Rachel Cusk
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted.…
— Judy Holliday
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was…
— Calamity Jane
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The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew…
— Jon Landau
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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf,…
— Marlee Matlin
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what…
— Larry Miller
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I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point…
— Dee Dee Myers
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they…
— Jodi Picoult
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and…
— J D Salinger
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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would…
— Grace Slick
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When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
— Harriet Tubman
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I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
— Tom Vilsack
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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to…
— Christopher Walken
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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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