Has Beens Quotes - Page 16

• Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.

  David Gill

  People, Drug, Situation

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• Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

  David Gilmour

  Guitar, Voice, Wells

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

  David Ginola

  Moving, Careers, Television

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• I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

  David Ginola

  Children, Taken, Wife

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• I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

  David Ginola

  Football, Holiday, Next Week

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Thinking, Trying

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, Organization, Egypt

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  Gale Gordon

  Thinking, Perfect, Television

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• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's "free stuff," too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the "free stuff" that the government provides other people.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Government, Long, People

  "Romney and Bain Didn’t Become Successful 'On Their Own' Either!" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

  Jim Gerlach

  Strong, Iraq, Acting

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• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Law, Community, September 11

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• I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

  John Garamendi

  Reform, Campaigns, Care

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• After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Summer, Nice, Fall

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

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• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

  Michael Graves

  Ideas, Long, Architecture

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• The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

  James F. Amos

  Marine, America, Today

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• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  Joan Allen

  Strong Women, Integrity, Thinking

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• I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

  Joan Armatrading

  People, Musician, Influence

  "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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• Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

  Karen Allen

  Crazy, Writing, Bad Relationship

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• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, Needs, Invention

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• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

  Marc Andreessen

  Google, Too Late, Research

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