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All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. Muhammad Yunus
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Joan Rivers
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, ‘What’s for dinner?’ because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little. Joseph B. Wirthlin
If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. Mickey Mantle
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. Clint Eastwood
We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. Jack LaLanne
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. Malcolm Muggeridge
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. Paul Cezanne
If youth knew; if age could. Sigmund Freud
I knew I was going to be slugged up, my whole mouth gold. Kodak Black
I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go. Layne Staley
Playing rugby made my dad proud. Being in the theater made my mom proud. So if I could play to both sides of how I was raised, then how could I lose? And that sounds like a hindsight thing, but I knew it at the time. Jacob Elordi
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It’s the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they’d never stop slapping us. Larry Miller
Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there’s no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’ Claudette Colvin
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’. Arthur Eddington
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous. Michael Caine
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. Maya Angelou
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal. Lana Del Rey
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Mary Schmich
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. Marie Curie
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. Oscar Levant
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people. Stevie Nicks
When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything! Denzel Washington
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me. Rita Hayworth
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications. J. Cole
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues. James Dobson
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. Erykah Badu
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. Lord Kelvin
I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way. Steve Kerr
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what. Elvis Presley
I love the song ‘El Rey.’ And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I’d never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was. George Strait
‘Jump Street,’ I knew we had a great time. It didn’t matter, didn’t know if it was going to do well. Channing Tatum
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity. Nipsey Russell
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward. Joel Osteen
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. Lionel Messi
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. Andy Warhol
I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances. Dwayne Johnson
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller
I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn’t know what. Steve Prefontaine
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too. A. J. Cook
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not – we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. Luke Bryan
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing ‘the most,’ meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments: they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. Janet Mock
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. Stephen Hawking
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. Stephen King
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time. Maureen O’Hara
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
The first time I went to Johnny Depp’s house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn’t really know what that entailed. Kate Moss
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought shelter in Russia and was granted asylum. Jawaharlal Nehru knew everything. Subramanian Swamy
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. Willie Nelson
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso
The goal wasn’t to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about – the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was. James Earl Jones
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn’t talk much. I never met him. Mike Tyson
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. Agatha Christie
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Unknown
Honestly I knew from the very youngest age that I was going to play football, then coach, then die. I never thought about a deviation from that plan. Jim Harbaugh
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. Robert Frost
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. Montesquieu
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy. Lloyd Bentsen
I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. Eminem
My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Barack Obama
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface. Buzz Aldrin
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around – literally flying in and out of bowls – that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly. Tony Hawk
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. Orville Wright
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability. LeBron James
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. Paul Dirac
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool. Romeo Santos
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight. Marilyn French
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. Muhammad Ali
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. Cicely Tyson
We knew we could fail; we just didn’t think we would. Phil Knight
When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn’t accept it. Marlee Matlin
If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find. John Churton Collins
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Henry David Thoreau
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Gerard Way
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. Thomas a Kempis
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Morgan Freeman
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller
I could see it wasn’t going to be easy. I couldn’t give a franchise to any old greasy spoon. And I knew the chicken had to be cooked the way I told them to cook it if it was going to be as popular as it could be. Colonel Sanders
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard. Lin-Manuel Miranda
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this – that he knew nothing yet. Aphra Behn
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. Billie Joe Armstrong
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it. Frank Gehry
I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you’re prepared to take that risk? Niki Lauda
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents. Kendrick Lamar
