Has Beens Quotes - Page 25

• I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

  Kathy Bates

  Character, Trying, Fit

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• Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Reality, Veils, World

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

  Michael Behe

  Keys, Cells, Understanding

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• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  Otis Blackwell

  Yesterday, Interviews, Remember

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• Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

  Phil Bredesen

  Expansion, Care, Pay

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• A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Stories

  "Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview". Interview with Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Our Society, Kind

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• In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Hands, Icons, Grease

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• When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

  Steve Burns

  Mom, Running, New York

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• Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, Guarantees, Helping

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• My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

  Ty Burrell

  Brother, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

  Wes Borland

  Lying, Player, Guitar

  "Wes Borland: Why he left Limp Bizkit" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 24, 2002.

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• I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Government, Tv Shows, Survival

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• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Drawing, Scary

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• In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

  Brian Chesky

  Home, San Francisco, June

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• My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Hard Work, Successful, Careers

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

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• I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Appreciate, Actors, Ends

  Interview with AskMen, askmen.com.

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• I have been able to sniff out a phony.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Able, Phony

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

  Mark Carwardine

  Rhinos, Scary, World

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• I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on 'Dynasty,' it was just so cheesy. That's half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it's not so fun to have to say those lines.

  Billy Campbell

  Fun, Grateful, People

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

  Billy Campbell

  Thinking, Cities, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

  Billy Crudup

  Thinking, Done, Made

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• I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

  Bob Corker

  Thinking, Afghanistan, Multiple

  "Bob Corker Says War in Afghanistan 'Not Sustainable'" by Jonathan Karl and Gregory Simmons, abcnews.go.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

  Dan T. Cathy

  Lord, Chicks, Feels

  "The Cult of Chick-fil-A" by Emily Schmall, www.forbes.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  Daniel Clowes

  Years, Trying, Stories

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