Has Beens Quotes - Page 7

• On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

  Bob Barr

  Office, President, Records

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• For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

  Bob Barr

  Long, Silence, Liberty

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• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  Caprice Bourret

  Careers, Lucky, Whole

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

  Colin Baker

  Brother, Doctors, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

  Conrad Black

  America, World, Term

  "A Terrible & Vacuous Crisis of Leadership" by Conrad Black, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2010.

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• The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

  Conrad Black

  Facts, Watergate, Exaggerated

  Conrad Black (2016). “Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out”, p.228, Signal

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• Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

  Danny Boyle

  Teacher, Interesting, Decision

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• My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

  David Brainerd

  Blessed, Hands, Views

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.391

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• I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

  Demian Bichir

  Long, Intense, Enough

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• A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Football, Years, People

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• Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

  Derek Bailey

  Moving, People, Way

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• It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

  Drew Brees

  Who I Am, Interesting, World

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• My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

  Drew Brees

  Running, Team, Long

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• I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Hurt, Passion, Thinking

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

  Ellen Burstyn

  People, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Men, Thinking, France

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Long, Not Good Enough

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Ideas, Views, Matter

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• I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

  Gary Burton

  Thinking, Different, Likes

  "Acclaimed musician Gary Burton on his partners through life, including Chick Corea". Interview with Nick Krewen, www.thestar.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  Haley Barbour

  Country, Smart, Thinking

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

  James Belushi

  Jobs, Mean, California

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• I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

  James Belushi

  Drama, Night, Thinking

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• And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

  Jan Brewer

  Responsibility, People, Borders

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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• But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, Years, America

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 27, 2010.

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