Has Beens Quotes - Page 29

• I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Thinking, Trying

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

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• After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, Organization, Egypt

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Summer, Nice, Fall

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

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• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

  Michael Graves

  Ideas, Long, Architecture

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• I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

  Joan Allen

  Strong Women, Integrity, Thinking

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• I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

  Joan Armatrading

  People, Musician, Influence

  "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, Needs, Invention

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• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

  Marc Andreessen

  Google, Too Late, Research

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• Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Father

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• None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Planning, Instinct

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Years, Nobel, Prize

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• The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

  Rob Andrew

  Clubs, Rugby, Invaluable

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• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Feel Good

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

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• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  Samuel Alito

  Years, Judging, Mind

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• My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

  Donald Byrd

  Giving, Concern

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• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  Douglas Booth

  Dog, Girlfriend, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Father, Boys, People

  Ezekiel J. Emanuel (2013). “Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family”, p.42, Halban Publishers

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

  Petra Stunt

  Dark, Thinking, House

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• There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Past, Years, Training

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

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• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  Sam Elliott

  Hollywood, Vets, Vietnam

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• I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

  Sam Elliott

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Century, Lost

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• I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Europe, People

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