Has Beens Quotes - Page 12

• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  Ed Rollins

  Littles, Tough, Shock

  "Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on you, Michele" by Edward Rollins, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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• Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

  Susie Orbach

  Stars, Movie Star, Invitations

  "Body confidence and the new political line on beauty" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

  David Rockefeller

  Business, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

  Horatio Bottomley

  Education, Poor, University

  Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Years, Play

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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Drama, Littles, Poetic

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Airplane, Government

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• Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

  Bill Dixon

  Groups, Possibility, Realms

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• My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

  Bill Dixon

  Careers, People, Different

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• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

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• I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

  Richard Cobden

  Office, India, Employment

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.388

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• Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

  Herman Cain

  War, Years, Trying

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• My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Important

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• Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Real, Years, Csi

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Bored, Might

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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• The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

  Paul Keating

  Passion, Belief, Process

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

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• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

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• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  C. Everett Koop

  Educational, Home, Kids

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• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  Mary Douglas

  Steps, Next, Arguing

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Meat, Want

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• Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

  George P. Shultz

  Political, Reason, Economic

  "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.

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• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

  Bob Brown

  Kids, Thinking, Difficult

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

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• I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Actors, Critics

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