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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.