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Related The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. LEO BUSCAGLIA Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don'... MARGARET ATWOOD One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately... DENIS LEARY Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they... PAM GRIER Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for th... PEDRO ALMODOVAR I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what... ASAP ROCKY I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them... MARTHA BECK There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. CAMERON BRIGHT I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... ASHTON KUTCHER Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. T. BERRY BRAZELTON You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny... GARRY SHANDLING What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's ... BJORK There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ... MARC MARON Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca... LARRY HAGMAN My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer. CRAIG GROESCHEL You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree... RAFIK HARIRI More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don'... ANNE SEBBA The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a ... OSCAR ISAAC What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. PAUL SAMUELSON Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're cry... EVAN DAVIS Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the cor... GUY BURGESS In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care. AKON I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they sa... PAUL KANE I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they... DORIS LESSING A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't l... DONALD TRUMP I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve ... ELIE WIESEL I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they... CAITLYN JENNER The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room sayi... JAMES CORDEN All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degr... ANDREA CORR I don't care much about conforming. MAYIM BIALIK I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if... ROBERT FISK When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that... BILL PARCELLS Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. PAUL THEROUX I don't care about age very much. CHINUA ACHEBE Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'd... JOHN RIDLEY Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. JIMMY BUFFETT One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read '... JACK MCBRAYER I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't... JIM BROWN Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunn... DONALD TRUMP That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca... MARILYN MONROE I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc... CHRISTIAN BALE I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear o... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, bu... BOSS TWEED I don't really know much about cars. RAMON RODRIGUEZ The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. ... DAVID CROSBY Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don&... TYLER PERRY I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much abou... TOM STOPPARD Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know a... TONY SNOW I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin... PATRICIA POLACCO There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have. RICK SPRINGFIELD I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment. SAINA NEHWAL When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult. SEAN DURKIN When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't kn... EVA MENDES So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people tha... DAVID DENMAN Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to. CHANG-RAE LEE There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN I don't know much about my biological background. DAN STEVENS The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don... VIRGINIA POSTREL There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they... NOAH HAWLEY I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH I don't care about how much other actors get. DANIEL CRAIG The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do wit... SOPHIE OKONEDO Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to u... JEFFREY ZELDMAN I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history i... JOAN SUTHERLAND I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age. ALEXIS STEWART A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. TRAVIS BARKER I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep... LILLIAN GORDY CARTER My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn... SCOTT KELBY Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically... MADISON SMARTT BELL I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international comm... COLIN POWELL I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles. TRACY MORGAN The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. BOB WOODWARD One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can'... FRED WILSON The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they lik... JOE GREENE The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin... ALAN WATTS I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have... BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditi... NORMAN ORNSTEIN I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't. ZOSIA MAMET Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is differ... TAYLOR SWIFT When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. ... DUSTIN MILLIGAN The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - m... KATHA POLLITT A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but ... JONATHAN DAVIS Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to str... ERIC CLAPTON The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivati... JAMES CHANOS Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a ce... CLINT EASTWOOD There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ... DONALD RUMSFELD So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia... BEN STEIN I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to ... ADRIANA TRIGIANI I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfact... SETH ROGEN The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about th... MCKAYLA MARONEY I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care... ADAM MCKAY It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you'... JOHN ROBERTS I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can ... ANGELA AHRENDTS
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