Don Knotts Quotes

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

Don Knotts

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• I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Sometimes
  • Hopeless
  • Subway

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Moment

• In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Mindset

• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • High
  • Boy

• We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Community
  • Alone
  • Door

• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • People
  • Black
  • Saying

• I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Rock
  • Styles
  • Funky

• The world is still sexist.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • World
  • Still
  • Sexist

• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Character
  • Wings

• For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.

  

  Flume
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Why

• The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Plan

• I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Together
  • Want
  • Know

• Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.

  

  Arman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Transformation

• I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

  

  Christen Press
  • Focus
  • Football
  • Athlete

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I'd come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

  

  Don Knotts