Has Beens Quotes - Page 33

• Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

  Julian Sands

  Acting, Bourgeoisie, Would Be

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

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• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  Katey Sagal

  Children, Thinking, Three

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• Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

  Ken Salazar

  Rural Areas, Colorado, Urban

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• I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, Growing Up, Believe

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• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

  Ken Salazar

  Real, Oil, Vision

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• My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

  Steve-O

  Inspirational, Focus, Sobriety

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

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• You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Psychics, Literature

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• Mitt Romney and I don't agree on every issue and certainly housing is one of them. When you look at what is going on here in Southern Nevada, you can't say you got to let the housing market hit bottom. We have been bouncing along the bottom for years. And the fact is we have to do everything possible to: 1) keep people in their homes and 2) get people who are out of their homes back into their homes.

  Joe Heck

  Home, Years, Issues

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• Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an opportunity for Gov. Romney to have a sincere conversation about what we can do and why. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

  Susana Martinez

  Mean, Opportunity, Self

  "Susana Martinez: What New Mexico's Governor Can Teach the GOP" by Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. May 14, 2012.

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• This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

  John McCain

  Needs, World, Unions

  "Sen. McCain talks Syria, Iran and tensions with Pakistan; Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic institutions vs. Obama administration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

  Newt Gingrich

  Spirit, Republican, Investment

  Cnn Florida Republican Presidential Debate, transcripts.cnn.com. January 26, 2012.

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• No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hero, Race, Blood

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• But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.

  Pierre Boulle

  Book, Writing, Men

  Pierre Boulle (1963). “Planet of the Apes”

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• It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Writing, Mind, Study

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• Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pain, Writing, Journey

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Awareness

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• There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Names

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• Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Mind

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• Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Government

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Business, Average, People

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• Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

  Octavia Butler

  Bullying, Joining In, Laughing

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• While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.

  Evanna Lynch

  Fun, Home, Challenges

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• There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

  John Landis

  Taken, Film, Horror

  Interview with Jason Guerrasio, film.avclub.com. September 08, 2011.

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• I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Narrative

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• I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Lucky, Able, Feels

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