#cog

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#call #cool #me #people #questions

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. ↗

— Moby

#get #guys #i #kind #like

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#biography #forms #game #hunting #like

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#areas #creates #deserve #recognition #sense

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#days #every #full #i #lead

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #before #confusing #fame #great

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#borders #first #israel #know #palestinian

When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned. ↗

— Lee Haney

#as far as #been #concerned #cross #far