Has Beens Quotes - Page 27

• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Punishment, Church, Target

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• Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

  Steve Chabot

  Men, People, Generations

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• Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

  Stewart Copeland

  Hands, Selling, Easier

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Eras, Republican

  "Tucker Carlson: End of Clinton era is nigh". Interview, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2000.

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• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  Vince Cable

  Team, Office, London

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Fascination, Right Now

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• I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

  Michelle Dockery

  Past, Class, People

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

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• Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

  Anita Desai

  School, Writing, Mind

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Country, America, Greed

  "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

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• It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

  Christopher Darden

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

  Christopher Durang

  Letting Go, Emotion, Problem

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Media, Iraq, Als

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• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  Gavyn Davies

  Thinking, Views, Long

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• At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

  Godfried Danneels

  Thinking, Waiting, Temperature

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• There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

  Hugh Dancy

  Opportunity, Careers, People

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

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• The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Driving, Offensive

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• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  Jeff Daniels

  Years, Television, Lasts

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• Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, People, Support

  "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.

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• The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

  John Doolittle

  Mean, Desire, United States

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• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Minorities, Sides, Republican

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• Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

  Nick Denton

  Ideas, Modern Journalism, Soul

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• Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

  Tom Daley

  Winning, Years, Gold

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• I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

  Anne Enright

  Very Happy

  "'I wanted to explore desire and hatred'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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