Could Have Been Quotes - Page 18

• That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Education, Years, Four

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• And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Art, Numbers, Two

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.

  Dave Parker

  Sports, People, Judging

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

  Grace Helbig

  Hate, Creating, Internet

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• Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  Aberjhani

  Opponents, Moments, Historic

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• My career could have been prolonged for longer

  Micky Quinn

  Careers, Has Beens

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• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

  David Gest

  Mean, Special, Wanted

  "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.  Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Empowering, Scare

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• You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

  Jamie Dimon

  Real, Book, Recovery

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• I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Careers, Poetry

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

  David Gest

  Wanted, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Color, Blind

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• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  Yancy Butler

  Proud, Standpoint, Has Beens

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• The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Communication, People, Atheism

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• If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dream, Years, Dancer

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Father, Conservative

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• Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Years, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Home, Giving

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• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Taken, Wind, People

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• The most important step of all is the first step.  Start something!  What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people?  You owe it to the world ot act.  Or maybe it will help only a few people:  The same advice applies.  If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Ideas, People

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• Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Two, Legends, Barcelona

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• Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, People, Has Beens

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book of by G. K. Chesterton, Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Ch. 11: The School for Hypocrites, 1910.

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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