Best Well Known Wisdom
346 Well Known quotes by 313 unique authors
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The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the…
— Frederick Lenz
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The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.
— Gaspard Ulliel
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On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors…
— Dolph Lundgren
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do…
— A. Theodore Tuttle
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I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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…
— Gore Vidal
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What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United…
— Charles Krauthammer
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When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time,"…
— Stephen Hawking
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It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
— Morgan Freeman
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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on…
— Stephen Fry
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
— Khalil Gibran
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Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with…
— Tom Colicchio
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I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
— Joseph Conrad
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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint…
— David Crystal
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It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
— Stockwell Day
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I…
— Zooey Deschanel
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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
— Nigel Farage
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about…
— Ian Fleming
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I…
— Naomie Harris
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
— Damien Hirst
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
— E. W. Howe
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
— Eddie Izzard
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