"I know everything except myself."

-- Francois Villon

#Knowledge Quotes #Self Knowledge Quotes

“I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.
“We went to Comic-Con and there were people dressed up as the characters. There's a whole canon of Ninjago history that I didn't even know about until the process of making the movie had started. Especially at Comic-Con, I realized that people really, really care about this, and I hope they like it because it's meaningful to them. It did actually change my feelings about it.”
“Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.”
“I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.”

Source : "Flavor Flav Loses Virginity At Six Years Old?". Complex Magazine Interview, hiphopdx.com. July 08, 2008.
“Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently â€“ rationing, by its proper name â€“ the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

Source : "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.
“This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.”
“That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.”
“When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.”

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