William Standish Knowles Quotes

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

William Standish Knowles

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

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• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

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• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

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• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

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• I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.

  

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• We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

  

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• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

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• During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

  

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• People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.

  

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• What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.

  

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• The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

  

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• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

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• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

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• I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

  

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• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  

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• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

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• Most of the time in February, everybody thinks they have the best class they've ever had. But we won't know until we get them here in August and see them. Certainly the way they rank them and the way we feel about them, it's our best class top to bottom. But that's always yet to be seen.

  

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• I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

  

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• I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

  

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• In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Team
  • Made
  • Class