Has Beens Quotes - Page 28

• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Motherhood, Men, Years

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• It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Nice, Taken, Independent

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

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• The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

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

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• Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

  Chris Ofili

  Thinking, Sudden Change, Studios

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

  Denise Van Outen

  Men, Thinking, Fabulous

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Girlfriend, Forever, My Family

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

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• When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  People, Forgiving, Littles

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• To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

  Jerry O'Connell

  School, Talking, Years

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• The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

  John Otway

  Thinking, Years, Fans

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• I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Summer, Holiday, Turkeys

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• I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Trying, Pieces

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• I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Thinking, Burden

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• All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

  Raymond T. Odierno

  Policy

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• In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Cutting, Rivers, Air

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Europe, Feelings, Century

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• The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

  Eva LaRue

  Opportunity, Thinking, Artist

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

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• The last few years have been pretty hectic.

  Frank Langella

  Years, Lasts, Hectic

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• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  Irving Langmuir

  Character, Disappear Completely, Prejudice

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• The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

  James Loeb

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

  Ana Ortiz

  Character, Important, Done

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• I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.

  David Oyelowo

  Christian, Real, Mean

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

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• I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Two, Magazines, Buying

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• Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Selling Products, Generations, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Kids, Careers, One Day

  "Aubrey O’Day: I wanted to make a real reality show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  Victor Ponta

  Risk, Passionate, Communist

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