Has Beens Quotes - Page 22

• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  Vash Young

  Rivers, Helpful, Loud

  Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Real, Class, People

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• Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

  Ben Elton

  Comedy, Instinct

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• I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Competition, Want

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• If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

  Pat Buchanan

  Media, Revolution, Medical

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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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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Fighting, Views

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 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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• I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

  David Rockefeller

  Realizing, Wonderful, Mines

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

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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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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Native American, White, Simplicity

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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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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• I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

  Bill Dixon

  Encores, Left, Reserves

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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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• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Bill Dixon

  Art, Tired, Years

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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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• I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Historical, Information

  Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

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

  Aretha Franklin

  Important

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• Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kids, Blood, Littles

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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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• Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

  Rita Coolidge

  People, Friendly, Records

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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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• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

  Arthur Keith

  Opposites, Christianity, Cases

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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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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