Has Beens Quotes - Page 17

• Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Fascination, Right Now

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• As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

  Sean Duffy

  Belts, American Family

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• Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

  Anita Desai

  School, Writing, Mind

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Done, Actresses, Film

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• It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

  Christopher Darden

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Brother, New York, Ideas

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Play, Careers, People

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

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• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  Gavyn Davies

  Thinking, Views, Long

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• There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

  Gray Davis

  California, America, Years

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• There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

  Hugh Dancy

  Opportunity, Careers, People

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

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• Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Years, Effort

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• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  Jeff Daniels

  Years, Television, Lasts

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• So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Successful, Years, Games

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• The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

  John Doolittle

  Mean, Desire, United States

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• It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Football, Honor, Clubs

  "Dalglish out as Liverpool manager". www.foxnews.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Minorities, Sides, Republican

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• Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

  Patti Davis

  Taken, Offering, Cells

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• Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

  Tom Daley

  Winning, Years, Gold

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• Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rocks, Band, Prime

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• In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

  Daniel Ek

  Order, Population, Facts

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• I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  Idris Elba

  Mean, Opportunity, Careers

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• The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

  John Engler

  Men, Luck, Able

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• I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

  John Ensign

  Honor, United States, Honestly

  "John Ensign Announces Resignatio" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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