Best Well Known Thoughts
346 Well Known quotes by 313 unique authors
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It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
— S. Robson Walton
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Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at…
— Gerhard Richter
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'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period…
— Walter Becker
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To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known…
— Gao Xingjian
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Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other.…
— Evan Davis
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No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've…
— James Iha
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I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of…
— Colin Baker
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I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've…
— Michael Gambon
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I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a…
— Mose Allison
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There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
— Mary Cheney
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Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
— G. Stanley Hall
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At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.
— Keith Moon
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According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of…
— Pieter Zeeman
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It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop…
— Viera Scheibner
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Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are…
— Sue Thoele
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I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.
— Kid Cudi
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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to…
— Dave Barry
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I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ?…
— Billy Connolly
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but…
— William Cowper
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It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the…
— Edward de Bono
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I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown…
— Ingmar Bergman
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I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to…
— Ricky Ponting
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Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in…
— Frederick Lenz
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