Has Beens Quotes - Page 27

• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

  Samantha Morton

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.

  Sienna Miller

  Foolish

  "Sienna Miller confesses: 'I have been foolish when it comes to love'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 05, 2009.

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• I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

  Tim McGraw

  Mean, Long, Want

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• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  B. J. Novak

  Real, Air, Office

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

  Azar Nafisi

  Passion, Past, Order

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Song, Piano, Auditions

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• I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Beautiful, Beautiful Person, Persons

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

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• Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

  Connie Nielsen

  Ideas, Pages, Scripts

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

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• You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

  Connie Nielsen

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

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• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  Gale Norton

  Country, Air, Quality

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  Gary Neville

  Brother, Sorry, Careers

  "Ashley Young emerges from the fog to give England a winger windfall" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2011.

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• You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

  Graham Nash

  Years, Alive, Fantastic

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• I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

  Jimmy Nail

  Blessed, Years, Careers

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• Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Crowds, Lines, Comic

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

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• I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Mean, Years, Theatre

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

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• It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Stars, Feet, Saws

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• My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Careers, Wife, Lovely

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• Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  World, Way, Violence

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Law, People, Century

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• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Privilege, Might, Sake

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• In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  Sam Neill

  Hate, Dumbing Down, Seems

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• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, www.taslimanasrin.com.

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