If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.
And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.
As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'
To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.
To be a good leader, you don't have to know what you're doing; you just have to act like you know what you're doing.
I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'
I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.
I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
