#knew

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. ↗

— David Letterman

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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that. ↗

— James Levine

#ever #i #knew #like #met

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#aspired #better #better life #class #classes

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#how #i #important #just #knew

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dichotomy #english #front #gone #great

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #championship #china #coach #first

Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#adrenalin #calm #day #doing #excited

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always