Has Beens Quotes - Page 28

• In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

  Daniel Ek

  Order, Population, Facts

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• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Feelings, Nuclear

  "Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2009.

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• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  Idris Elba

  Mean, Opportunity, Careers

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• I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking, Weight, Mags

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• I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

  John Ensign

  Honor, United States, Honestly

  "John Ensign Announces Resignatio" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

  Charles Frazier

  People, Circumstances, Interest

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• I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

  Karin Fossum

  Blow, Impact, Years

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• I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

  Kate Flannery

  Believe, Years, Female

  "Kate Flannery On ‘StandUp In Stilettos’: ‘The Girls Can Play Just As Hard As The Boys’" by Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

  Jon Fishman

  Growing Up, Good Life, Thinking

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• You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

  Jon Fishman

  Years, Looks, Earth

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• I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

  Joshua Ferris

  Mother, Father, Divorce

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• Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

  Rick Fox

  Guy, Making Love, Purpose

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• Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Track, Done

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• Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Our Generation, Self

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• We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.

  Austin Grossman

  Cities, Games, Would Be

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• Being in Doctor Who has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  Karen Gillan

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

  "Scots actress Karen Gillan excited and scared for life after Doctor Who". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. January 21, 2012.

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• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  Maggie Grace

  Art, Believe, Sight

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• Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Winter, Russia

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• Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Father, Fighting, Doors

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Grandfather

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

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• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

  David Gilmour

  Guitar, Voice, Wells

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

  David Ginola

  Moving, Careers, Television

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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