"I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why."
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"I don't even know what success is."
"I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring."
"Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge."
"Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud."
"I don't deserve you. You know that, querida, don't you? (Alex)"
"Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?"
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"I write to find out what I didn't know I knew."
"If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are."
"As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?"
"There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know."
"What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself."
"If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist."
"I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing."
"It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them."
"Any parting could be forever, and we don't know."
"When I start a story, I don't know where it's going."
"What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell."
"There’s always someone who knows something."