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 have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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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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My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.
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No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
