Has Beens Quotes - Page 33

• Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

  Graham Joyce

  Boxes, Difficult, Sprung

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• And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Long, Purpose

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• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Song, Believe, Done

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

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Apology, Media, People

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  Naveen Jain

  Country, Dream, Responsibility

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• In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Get Away, Naturalist, Hostage

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• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  Valerie Jarrett

  President, Campaigns, Bigs

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• The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Healthcare Reform, Issues, President

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• Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

  Chris Klein

  Dream, Acting, Remember

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• I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

  Tom Kristensen

  Years, Racing, Trying

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

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• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  Callie Khouri

  Girl, Stars, Years

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• I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

  Chris Kyle

  Thinking, People, Care

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

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• I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Grateful, Successful, People

  "Jeffrey Dean Morgan Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.

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• My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Successful, Later In Life, Long

  "Jeffrey Dean Morgan Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.

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• If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.

  J.R. Ward

  Sex, Obese, Ifs

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.102, Penguin

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Suffering

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• "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent."

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Humor, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Two, Drunk

  Song: A Pirate Looks At Forty, Album: A1A, 1974

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• Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

  George Michael

  Philosophy, Caring, Joy

  Song: I Believe, Album: Faith

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• You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

  Tim McGraw

  Philosophy, Might, Pay

  Song: Red Rag Top

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• When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Rain, Ozone

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• It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."

  William C. Brown

  Book, Mean, Men

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• I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Broken, Routine

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• Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Together, Add

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