Has Beens Quotes - Page 13

• Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

  Christian Lacroix

  Names, Ideas, World

  4 Copy quote

• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

  David Parnas

  Bridges, Knowing, Safety

  14 Copy quote

• I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

  Cameron Diaz

  Trying, Worried, Projects

  5 Copy quote

• I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Looks, Pops

  7 Copy quote

• A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

  Howard Gardner

  Organization, Long, People

  4 Copy quote

• My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

  Howard Gardner

  Encouragement, Creativity, America

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

  Steve Carell

  Levels, Might, Jerk

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.

  Novak Djokovic

  Order, Want, Dedicated

  8 Copy quote

• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Roles, Branches

  25 Copy quote

• As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

  Emily Procter

  Adoption, Parent, Different

  54 Copy quote

• My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

  Sean Hannity

  Blessed, Imagination, Take Me

  7 Copy quote

• I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

  Morena Baccarin

  Song, Cheesy, Road Trip

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Witty, Book, Writing

  "Big ideas". Interview with Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

  Robert Pozen

  Years, Quality, Patents

  7 Copy quote

• I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Thinking, Goal

  5 Copy quote

• Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

  William C. Kirby

  War, Believe, Inevitable

  6 Copy quote

• The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

  William C. Kirby

  Successful, Government, Political

  18 Copy quote

• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  Eve Arnold

  Children, Poverty, Birth

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

  Hayley Atwell

  Ambitious

  9 Copy quote

• What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

  John Barrasso

  Law, Obamacare, People

  4 Copy quote

• Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

  Joko Beck

  Goal, Enlightenment, Absence

  54 Copy quote

• Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

  Rick Bass

  Dream, Ambition, Compromise

  8 Copy quote

• I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

  Sara Bareilles

  Artist, Apples, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source