Has Beens Quotes - Page 32

• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

  Dave Hickey

  Want, London, Not Interested

  "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

  Hunter Hayes

  Long, Fans, Huge

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• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

  Joanne Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

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• I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

  Lena Headey

  Beautiful, Hate, Nice

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• People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

  Amanda Holden

  Couple, Flirty, Hate

  "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

  Chuck Hagel

  Israel, Supporter

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements" by Glenn Kessler, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

  Eric Holder

  Justice, Tactics, Execution

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

  Kamala Harris

  Dna, People, Guilty

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• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Years, Lasts, Problem

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• Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Spiritual, Exercise, Literary Genre

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

  Steven Hatfill

  Dedication, United States, Connections

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement". www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Needs, Body

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• When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, United States

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• Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

  Julio Iglesias

  Passion, Dna, Generations

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

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• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  Abdallah II

  Iran, Talking, Play

  "Paper: Jordan's King Abdullah II Wants Nuclear Program". www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2007.

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• John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

  Michael Imperioli

  Class, Acting, Firsts

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• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  Patricia Ireland

  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Disappointment, Writing, Stuff

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• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

  Heart, Clothes, Culture

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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