Well Known Quotes

Well Known Quotes by Robert Rinder, Aron Nimzowitsch, Seneca the Younger, Kevin Hart, Paul Dini, Bernie Sanders and many others.

From time to time, I definitely look witheringly, which is why I’m well known.
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
When you‘re writing for a game – even if you’re using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend themselves to many different interpretations – you have to keep in mind that you’re writing for a different medium. Things are a bit more straightforward than it is for a feature film or a TV show.
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
You couldn’t make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In ‘Exegesis,’ I’ve tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.
I’m reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I’ve been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.
No, I’m so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that’s always been around that they’re not going to throw out.
I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at ‘Sarbjit.’ It is about an ordinary Punjabi woman‘s extraordinary courage to prove her brother‘s innocence.
I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
I had one well known director who kept saying, “Now Clint, this is what ….” And I’d say, “I know. I read the script. I’m the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you’ll correct me if I’m wrong.”
It is well known that I am pro-life… but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
It’s good to be well known. Everywhere I go it’s the same thingautographs, pictures.
The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o’clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
I can remember games where the crowd was the reason we won it. It’s well known the Kings have incredible fans.
Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
You don’t have to be one of the Elders. You don’t have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That’s all it takes.
It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor‘s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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!
It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.
As my career has gone on, I guess I’ve become more well known. I’m playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you’re doing that, you’re going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy.
I’m quite well known for wearing polo necks. I get them from John Smedley.
What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.
I have a lot of notoriety now because of the Stormy Daniels case. I was less well known before outside of legal circles.
There’s more well-known artists who aren’t making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.
My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
The sporting fields where Australia‘s greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about “open sourcethinking that I work under that banner.
I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and I was well known for my rebellion.
I was weird right from the start. It’s just that you can’t ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don’t know who you are.
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year‘s work, than to have two thousand dollarsworth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
I think since I’m not particularly well-known as myself, it’s funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone’s only seen me in ‘Death Proof,’ they think I’m sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
My mother‘s brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.
I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.
I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody‘s worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It’s not flip.
Even though I’ve been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can’t get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
Literally overnight, I became an animator… and one that was well-known.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s out there now…’ Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn’t very well known.
A well known director wouldn’t take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn’t taken the chance with me.
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It’s a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.
One thing to remember when you’re successful, famous, whatever you want to call it – well-known, not that well-known – whatever you want to go. One thing to remember is your family’s not famous, and they’re not well-known.
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense–what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It’s well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.
Things don’t get better when you become well known or go on TV. I’m just being rejected by a better class of women.
I’d been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because “no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view.”
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
When I am training, I don’t want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.
The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known – it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
It’s not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more – to be richer, more beautiful, more well known – you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps.
Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can’t get it.
Somehow I feel South Indian actors are not that well known in the Hindi belt. Tamil and Telugu actors have an upper hand. But Kannada and Kerala are totally sidelined by Hindi filmgoers.
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn’t have anything to do with truth.
I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That’s my grandma, that’s my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I’d probably tell them even if they weren’t well known.
The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn’t understand.
I’m happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can’t quite place it. I don’t really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it’s kind of nice to not be all that well known.
I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called… oh, this is terrible. It’s a very well-known film and I can’t remember the name. That’s what happens when you get older… I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.
I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.
Stanley Walker
Maybe at some point, I will come out with my #MeToo story. Very well known and important people have tried to take advantage of me or have misbehaved. They are still around. When I want to name them, I will name them. It will not be one name, there will be quite a few names.
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [JeanPaul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.
I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
It’s well known there’s always two sides, if no more.
Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.
The U.K. is so important to me. It’s everything – it’s my home. I love America, but it’s so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.
It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school.
One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, ‘My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard,’ so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a quarter-life crisis, between 20 and 30, has also gained a fair amount of media coverage. But there’s a surprising lack of robust research on these events, and almost none on later life crisis.
Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
I don’t think I have an image of being an underground musician. I have an image of being an uncompromising musician, and I am well known in Norway partly because of that.
A good song‘s a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people’s lives.
My first time actually appearing in a match at SummerSlam was 2010, and I was wrestling against Rey Mysterio in the opening match of the show. I was pretty brand new as Dolph Ziggler, and obviously Rey Mysterio was a well known superstar.
It’s well known that I play aggressively. When I’m not doing that, I’m not doing my job.
I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West – say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase – are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world’s largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
Manchester United is like the American team in the Premier League, and everyone knows the weight of it back home. It is so exciting for me to wear a badge that is well known.
The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.
It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don’t usually walk around in the streets, either.
We’ve had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we’ve had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people – some well-known, most totally unknown – who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
AJ Styles, he is very well established, very well known. He had a name that was very well known. I would think, outside of WWE, his might be the most outside-recognized wrestling name in the world. Samoa Joe as well. He could have debuted straight to Raw or SmackDown, absolutely.
It’s pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered – and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.
Tony Taccone
I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, “This book says homosexuals should be killed.”
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody’s favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty.
Philosophy means liberation from the – routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.
Although the only way that I’m well known at Illinois State is that I am the “grammar Nazi.” And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they’re going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It’s really a lot of fun.
My grandfather, on my father’s side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Harman International’s dedication to research and development, as well as its strict adherence to quality manufacturing, are well known throughout the corporate world. The opportunity to lead a company with such high standards, worldwide reputation, and outstanding growth potential is extremely appealing.
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that’s not a very well-known thing.
As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.
Britain has lots of celebrities who are well known and admired today, but we don’t seem to have any heroes.
I’m very well known for hiding my phone in really weird places. I can hide it in a refrigerator during a scene or under that bed. It’s pretty bad, but at the end of the day we can all laugh at it.
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, “I’m a Liar,” right there on the dust jacket.
The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good or bad, we know the decision of the Constitutional Court, but this problem has not been dealt with yet, it is still being addressed by the legislation of the United States. This is not the case in Russia.
In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there’s a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person on TV we would call the rest of the family to the sitting room to have a look. The story that is less well known is what it was like to be that one black person on TV.
I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they’re pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
I didn’t go to the right schools, didn’t come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
I did become quite well known from ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral‘, and it helped hugely. I wasn’t as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.
I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.
Well, my piano‘s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
I think ‘SNL‘ is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it’s great.
I remember when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever saw me coming. I suppose he was in love with me and wasn’t quite sure of himself. Well, c’est la vie!
There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and “pirated” helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.
I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.
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.
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
Nixon‘s deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain’t that your majority is outnumbered, you’re just out-surrounded.
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.
Steven Landsburg
I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don’t actually know a lot of the lyrics.
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
For an incumbent like a president, who’s been in the news every day, their family, they’re well known.
My dad was well known on the streets, shall we say, and he had a different lifestyle, which could spill into the home setting. Being exposed to that at a young age was difficult.
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)
I grew up the son of the village doctor, so my father was quite well known. At home in Northumberland, frankly Dad is the famous one.
My skating brought me to a level of being well known in Canada, but I’ve grown up having trained in the U.S. I haven‘t lost my roots in Canada thanks to the little rpminders again when I come home: People thanking me for what I do and for representing Canada in the world stage.
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
It’s well known that actors are lousy writers.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
It’s to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the ’70s that now are very well-known and used in many classrooms all over the world, but at the time were outrageous.
The Obama administration‘s hostility to school choice programs is well known.
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.
Edd Doerr
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
I guess in the independent market, I’d be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don’t think my name is that well-known, I don’t have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.
I think because I really didn’t have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn’t plan it the right way. … As a candidate who was already so well known … I don’t think I ever said, ‘Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don’t take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
I’m very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that – no.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.
I’m fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
When I was really young, Dad wasn’t that well known. I don’t remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.
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
I have walked many times around the world and each time it’s different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It’s really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.
It’s well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen’s goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy… a girl.
Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.В  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don’t look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, “yep that’s really what I want to look like!”
Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They’re not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.
I don’t mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it’s not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one’s field. Public perks. Like, I don’t know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that’s just part of the business.
There’s not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can’t just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don’t, you’ll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.
In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which controls Congress.
Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean‘s edge, are one of Sydney‘s defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.
I came to Leverkusen as a very young player and didn’t have many Bundesliga games back then. I wasn’t well known.
Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put ‘into shape‘ for optimal learning.
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she’s well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea‘s fans, but also by other teams.
Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
Americans’ lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there’s no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.
In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors.
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths
We’ve got to stop this making fun of guys. I think part of it’s to protect [Barack] Obama, because he’s the one that’s well known for that.
It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
It’s a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.
I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
I am particularly fond of Malaysian food but strangely its not that well known in Britain.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.
The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds – to say nothing of stars or galaxieshumans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.
It’s fairly well known that we all hate each other to some extent. ‘Top Gear‘ has worked because of a combination of camaraderie and mutual dislike. That’s actually the magic.
No, I’ve heard over the years that it’s nice for them to see somebody who’s like, you know, a well-known successful musician who’s Asian. I’ve heard it from a few musicians, too.
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes – proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.
At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from the well-known Attica State Prison. Then I would take the school bus which was a very short distance away, where I was involved with a much larger community.
When you’re working in the [film] industry and you’re working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Seeing the way that people hold themselves and compose themselves before a scene – it’s inspirational.
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they’re not very well known, and they’re not read by very many people.
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)
I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I’m thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
It is a well known urban myth that the French don’t trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It’s not that they are tight with money – they just don’t trust anyone.
What really alarms me about President Bush‘s ‘War on Terrorism‘ is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is ‘Terrorism’ going to surrender? It’s well known, in philological circles, that it’s very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
It’s not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It’s a right-wing conglomerate. It’s more sophisticated, it’s well-financed, it’s well known.
Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don’t think trying to do things yourself will be easy – if at all possible.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, “There’s a Chaplain who never visited the front.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
It’s pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.
Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
America’s strong bonds with Israel are well known – this bond is unbreakable.
Ashtanga yoga is a well known practice for keeping yourself fit and healthy. Yoga is good for my body.
Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They’re very destructive.
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.
For ‘tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
I’m really familiar with what Cardboard‘s doing; it’s not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.
It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.
You can’t teach people photography, they’ve got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don’t really get intimate with the medium until they’ve made a few bad shots!
When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn’t matter if you’re well known or rich or whatever it is.
I’ve made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I’m a well-known person.
It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
Just because you’re well known doesn’t mean you don’t experience heartbreak or have a relationship that doesn’t go the way you want it to, or you’re not worried about the text that you just sent that girl and she hasn’t responded.
There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.
The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
I am a fool. That is well known.
I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you’re a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. I don’t have that kind of cult [following].
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].
It’s true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones and the Beatles and how they listened to Muddy Waters and people like that when they were starting out, who are much less well known now than the Rolling Stones. The Stones really changed blues.
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50’s and 60’s and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, “Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it’s the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren’t threatened by me because they didn’t think I was a big deal.
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute’s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
I don’t go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you’re well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it’s like you‘re a thing.
The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It’s a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others – you teach people to fish – I think that’s why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.
There are so many fighters from every corner of India that I can produce and why not put them onto a platform so that one day they become well known internationally as well.
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt – as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to ‘Top Chef‘ although they’re not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There’s just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don’t win, they’re all talented.
I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in “Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2” but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.
There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren’t well known and many feel deserve more attention.
I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
You’re playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It’s never going to ‘be’ that person, but it’s based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.
I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn’t go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
It’s exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There’s obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I’m from the Workshop, it’s so well known.
Lucy Carless
It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the ‘errors‘ of authors.
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.
Even though I’ve been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can’t get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
[Betsy] DeVos’s statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush’s administration.
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
I am very much aware of my own double self… The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work – he is in touch with the child.
It’s well known that actors are lousy writers.
Let’s recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved with one of the attacking sides, and allowed it to destroy a whole village. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. The tragedy in Srebrenica is well known in Europe.
People will always work harder if they’re getting well paid and if they’re afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.
The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.
It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn’t have to go around wearing blankets.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Yeah, you’d be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I’m a machinist. That’s how I made my guitars – at a machine shop.
In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected,
later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.
LL Cool J is very well known in Hollywood. He’s an established commodity across several platforms, including motion pictures.
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
There wasn’t a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn’t have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.
[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
We can reveal that John’s 85
That’s a well known fact
Telling Kathy’s age would be a breach
Of the Official Secrets Act
My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they’re getting more well known. We’re providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers.
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It’s so different – in some ways much harder for me.
If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian‘s comedian, it just won’t sit well. But I’m fine with that. I’m fine with that label.
It is alarming … to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
It’s well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.
The best part about reality shows is that they make you a well known name.
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Aliens don’t get stuck in air ducts. It’s practically a well-known fact.
I was against getting Beats cause I know they’re kind of really popular and you know, hey‘re such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work ‘The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of “filling in details” by one’s own efforts.
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of ‘cultural lamination’ that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
Of course there is ‘Messidependence.’ It would exist in any team in the world, but when he is not there, we also have to play and try to win. Leo is fundamental for us and marks the style; it is well known that he is the best in the world for something.
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you’re an actor who has done okay, but I’ve always fought against it.
There’s a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn’t make me well known – they made me notorious.
President Obama was well known for his interfering in Justice Department matters.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.
I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don’t think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It’s the least one can do.
you want to write a book for so many reasons … The main reason … is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write … to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
When an alluring woman comes in at the door,” warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, “discretion may be found up the chimney“. It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: “The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
I really want to share my story, but also make Paralympics more well known.
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
It’s well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.
Marie Claire‘ is one of those magazines that doesn’t feel as well known as it should be.
This whole celebrity racket, it’s not really my bag. I don’t really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I’m an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don’t know how to be that.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
I don’t think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it’s too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
…it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done.
The band ‘The Tragically Hip’. They’re super well known in Canada, not so much in the U.S. They’re a great band and when we were growing up we listened to them all the time, They’re icons in Canada.
Fool!” cried the hunchback. “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less well known is this: ‘Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
When you’re working in the industry, and you’re working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there’s a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don’t take yourself too seriously, and you don’t get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they’ve stopped existing.
My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.
Of course performing talent, that’s clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they’re trying to figure out how to go about it.