Has Beens Quotes - Page 24

• I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

  Sebastian Junger

  Thinking, Years, Made

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

  Andrea Jung

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

  Bill James

  Struggle, Race, Long

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• Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

  Curtis Joseph

  Loyalty, Hurt, Games

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• Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

  David Jeremiah

  Taken, America, Soul

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• If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Children, Want, Chance

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• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

  Heart, Clothes, Culture

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

  Graham Joyce

  Boxes, Difficult, Sprung

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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Character, Journey, Actors

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

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• And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Long, Purpose

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• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Song, Believe, Done

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

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• Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

  Leila Josefowicz

  People, Comfort, Classical Music

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• Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Class, Long

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Apology, Media, People

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.

  Mike Judge

  Long, Laughing, Guy

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• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  Naveen Jain

  Country, Dream, Responsibility

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• In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Get Away, Naturalist, Hostage

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• The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Assumption, Be Confident, Natural

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• All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

  Shooter Jennings

  Song, Writing, Get Better

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• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Tom Jones

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  Valerie Jarrett

  President, Campaigns, Bigs

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• The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Healthcare Reform, Issues, President

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