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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People love me and I love the people. The passion is just so deep inside you want to cry. I've gotte... CLYDE GETTY Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into thei... EVA SIMONS God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And so... ALICE WALKER We've been on them for three weeks. We know them inside and out. We know everything that they can do... JOE STELLMACHER You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec... AVA DELLAIRA Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU That story spoke to me. Sometimes all you can do is walk with someone as they go through what they a... JAN BENVIE Its who you know you are on the inside that most define the person you are. What one most understand... JONATHAN MICHALIK Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and s... JOHN LUBBOCK And Don Cheadle and Andy Garcia are just sitting there. They are the real meat and bones of that cas... KATHY GRIFFIN I just kind of wonder what it would be like to find someone who loves you the same amount that you l... BRITTAINY C. CHERRY I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you�... PLEASEFINDTHIS People just say and do things that you just wonder to yourself, 'Why? Why are they doing this? Don't... EVA NATASHA We just haven?t handled pressure well. You can weather some of that stuff if you can dump it inside ... GREG WILT They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood... AVA DELLAIRA 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I c... BOB DYLAN There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really... LAURELL K. HAMILTON You get to know them, and all about their family, their aches and pains. Sometimes you laugh with th... HARVEY WOLTER Don't wing it and do the best you can, ... You have to really study a new area and know it inside ou... HOWARD HERTZ Sometimes I just stop for a second and go 'Okay, 13 years old, you are in a job that some people wou... EVAN RACHEL WOOD Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, I guess, what you are and being f... ANDRE BENJAMIN Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that informati... JOSH KELLER Some people don’t realize how important of a back bone you are to them and the valuable support yo... GINA JAMMAL Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You kn... CHARICE PEMPENGCO I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey ... ELIZABETH JANEWAY There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT Nowadays people just stand there watching. It's definitely quieter, almost respectful. And as you pl... THE BEATLES Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio... ANDREW SOLOMON You're just into it at that point and you're alive on stage and you get away with mischief and good ... CATHY RIGBY Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together i... LEILA SALES As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up ... PEP GUARDIOLA You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quie... VICTORIA JUSTICE ...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this st... NELSON ALGREN You're so damn worried about what everyone else wants. Well, you know what, Nick? You're going to di... BRIGID KEMMERER Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words,... EMMA ABDULLAH Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's posi... JUICY J I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to t... HEIDI ROIZEN I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. An... EMME ROLLINS Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked... JODI PICOULT The great thing about travel books is that they are written with a voice, but sometimes it's hard to... LARRY OLSON People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has p... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS In a respectful relationship, each person understands, “I am responsible to know what is going on ... DANNY SILK You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay... BENNY CASSETTE But I guess you never really know some people. Sometimes they can be wonderful; sometimes they can b... ZOE SUGG Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you ou... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS The guys know they have to be going when they're out there and if you work like that, sometimes you ... DALE HUNTER Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca... LARRY HAGMAN Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose... DR. HOOK Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is r... RICHARD BACH I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down,... FRENCH MONTANA Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater th... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, y... TOM SCHULMAN If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and... ALLY CONDIE It just scares you to death because you don't know if they're still inside. KATHY LEREW You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special ... SHANNON L. ALDER it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Deep inside, you know it. You're trustworthy. Sadly, you may come across untrustworthy. What are rob... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to ... DAVE EGGERS If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will ... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS In life, you shall meet a person who is so much like you. You will have so much love and respect tha... SASHIL KUMAR I know of no two things that can change your life like God and Education. Both transform you from th... ANONYMUS Some people are like rocks, they ground you but sometimes put you in a hard place. Others are like t... NI D BREEN Some students, they knew what they were going out for, they just didn't know how to say it, you know... BRENDA RODRIGUEZ When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when... ARTHUR FELLIG All of the sudden, you heard this loud impact that just jolted and shook the house. We didn't know..... LINDA GODFREY There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; an... RICK YANCEY You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much abo... MARLON WAYANS It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape... RUPAUL But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all. CECELIA AHERN AHERN When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts i... NORA ROBERTS And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwrit... JESSIE J It is absolutely the 21st century, maybe the 22nd. They are so smart to know that they can't just se... CAROL KLEIMAN It is absolutely the 21st century, maybe the 22nd. They are so smart to know that they can't just se... CAROL KLEIMAN The readers of these books spent a lot of time with books, they know them inside and out, ... They h... GREGG KILDAY With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they ... M.T. ANDERSON To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom. CONFUCIUS The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they a... DELMA PRYCE ...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threate... ROBIN HOBB Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and... TATIANA MASLANY Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t... MAYA ANGELOU It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you... SHAKIRA You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but p... CARL ABRAHAMSSON Sometimes we find ourselves feeling unwanted or unloved. Remember you were born of love, you are lov... ANGIE KARAN I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also ... E.L. KONIGSBURG You just can't get anything like that. Coach is real good, but when you have somebody that can be th... BLAKE PRICE Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav... CAITLYN K The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules... GUS VAN SANT I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to b... OREN PELI When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it.... SANHITA BARUAH Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ... SARAH DESSEN
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NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ... NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free... NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t... NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa... NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point. NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar... NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t... NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway. NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe... NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy... NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, ... NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri... NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic... NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a... NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ... NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge... NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l... NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ... NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ... NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge... NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w... NEIL GAIMAN This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw an... NEIL GAIMAN