Has Beens Quotes - Page 3

• What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

  Horatio Bottomley

  Education, Poor, University

  Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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• The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

  Katarina Witt

  Long, Desire, Long Time

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

  George Vaillant

  Opportunity, Three, Privilege

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• Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

  Bill Dixon

  Groups, Possibility, Realms

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• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  Ed Rollins

  Littles, Tough, Shock

  "Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on you, Michele" by Edward Rollins, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, War, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Fighting, Views

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

  David Cronenberg

  Baby, Sex, Mean

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

  Janet Fitch

  Coins, Too Much, Language

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Mom, Dad, Three

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• Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kids, Blood, Littles

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• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  James Spader

  Thinking, Way, Becoming

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• I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Historical, Information

  Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

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• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Bill Dixon

  Art, Tired, Years

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Airplane, Government

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Years, Play

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• I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

  David Rockefeller

  Realizing, Wonderful, Mines

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

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