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Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know ...
HENRY MINTZBERG I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn...
ANDERSON COOPER I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.
TURKISH PROVERB You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you...
IAN MCKELLEN Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter d...
BERNARD BARUCH Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W...
EUGENE CERNAN Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W...
GENE CERNAN I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know wha...
DOLLY PARTON I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't ...
KEITH HERNANDEZ Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don'...
JOE BIDEN We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates a...
JIM RENACCI Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on ...
BUD ABBOTT It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be ...
TROY POLAMALU There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. W...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And yo...
JASON MORAN I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the...
TAMSIN GREIG What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He'...
ALEXA RAY JOEL The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't h...
BARACK OBAMA A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN I've actually taken meetings about hosting a late-night talk show. I don't know that what we...
RETTA Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
LAO TZU Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love h...
MAGGIE CAREY Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don'...
MARGARET ATWOOD There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been ...
JAMES COMEY This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that&#...
FRED WILSON There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
JOSH BILLINGS I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
ALAN ARKIN Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISP But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going ...
KRISTEN STEWART I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out ...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on ou...
GAVIN ROSSDALE I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based ...
ROSE MCIVER I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't k...
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know w...
C. EVERETT KOOP I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political a...
ANGUS KING Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
EMILY PROCTER We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-c...
GARY VAYNERCHUK After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&...
AUDREY TAUTOU I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.
TORREY SMITH Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people...
LUCILLE BALL We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
WALKER PERCY It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don...
GARY NEVILLE I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
DAVID BOWIE I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a...
RACHEL ROY Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
OPRAH WINFREY It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern...
SUSAN ERTZ YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
BURNIE BURNS You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there...
MARK CURRY I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I sai...
SHERILYN FENN I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don...
DAN AYKROYD It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. W...
GOLDA MEIR It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona...
XAVI I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha...
DYLAN MORAN We don't know what's going to happen and don't know what to talk about on a contract.
CHRIS TAYLOR The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
BOB WOODWARD Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Sup...
WARREN MOON There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will b...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what...
SHIA LABEOUF If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
GEORGE STRAIT I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework s...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared...
GINA GERSHON Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someon...
BOBBY FLAY Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average ...
BRUCE RAUNER For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
STUART CHASE What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
T. C. BOYLE Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip ab...
CARRIE FISHER I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or ...
NATHANIEL BUZOLIC We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know wha...
JACK FALAHEE When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,...
GERMANY KENT I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance...
BERNARD EBBERS I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people...
OMAR SHARIF Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for peop...
FRANK ZAPPA Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
GEORGE CARLIN There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
ANNIE LENNOX I don't know who Little Richard is.
BAR REFAELI I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. ...
MARTIN YAN I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ...
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LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
LARRY KRAMER If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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