"You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am"
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"People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive."
"I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better."
"You know, most people really don't know me."
"What men have seen they know. . . ."
"I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!"
"That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place."
"You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet."
"Come, live with me and you'll know me."
"Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it."
"To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue."
"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."
"Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor."
"no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me"
"I like a quiet life, you know me."
"Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi."
"I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet."
"People don't really know me at all."
"Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought."