Best Well-Known Quotes
57 Well-Known quotes by 57 unique authors
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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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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
— Khalil Gibran
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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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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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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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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
— Eddie Izzard
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be…
— Naveen Jain
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I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
— Elton John
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
— Maya Lin
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Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns…
— Simon Mainwaring
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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.
— Alanis Morissette
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I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an…
— Sarah Jessica Parker
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not…
— Sean William Scott
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I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known…
— Emma Thompson
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Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
— Donatella Versace
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I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to…
— Lawrence Welk
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and…
— Naomi Wolf
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how…
— Bob Woodward
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The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children…
— Charles K. Kao
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My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
— Arnon Goldfinger
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The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two…
— Robert Powell
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