Has Beens Quotes - Page 21

• In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

  Michael Connelly

  Hard Work, Thinking, Mind

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• Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

  Ray Davies

  People, Three, Done

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

  Jennie Finch

  Careers, Way, Whole

  "Softball star Finch set to retire", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  John Frankenheimer

  Technology, Keys, Creative

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• Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

  Paul Farmer

  Years, Historical, Records

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• I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Years, Doe, Looks

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• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, Video, Gamer

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

  Peter Gay

  Interest, Modernism

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• Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Past, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Light, World

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1868). “History of Civilization in England”, p.349

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• As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

  Stephen Bayley

  Art, Communication, Technology

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  Edward T. Hall

  People, Theatre, Experts

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• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  Larry Kramer

  Needs, Aids, Plague

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

  Christopher Walken

  Very Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, Invasion

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

  Christian Bale

  Numbers, Months, Wanted

  "Dark Star", www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2005.

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