William Standish Knowles Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
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For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.
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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
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for whom sitting and waiting is a way of life.
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
