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Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

The artist by his work is known.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

I don't want to be known as Gary Coleman's wife.

History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.