Has Beens Quotes - Page 35

• To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

  Jerry O'Connell

  School, Talking, Years

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• I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Trying, Pieces

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• I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Thinking, Burden

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• In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Cutting, Rivers, Air

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Europe, Feelings, Century

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• The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

  James Loeb

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

  Ana Ortiz

  Character, Important, Done

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• I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Two, Magazines, Buying

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• Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Selling Products, Generations, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

  Bev Perdue

  Speaks Out, Willing, Direct

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• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Bill Pascrell

  Law, Class, Long

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• Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

  Bob Packwood

  Genius, Republican, Advantage

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• I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

  Dana Plato

  Sober, Jokes, Decades

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

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• Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

  George Papandreou

  Taken, Opportunity, Europe

  "My Interview With Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou... From the Top of the Acropolis". Interview with Steven Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

  Piano, Broadway, Six

  "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Color, Years

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• John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

  Jeremy Piven

  Childhood, Together, Facts

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

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Years, Parent, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Determination, Real, Team

  "'Blade runner' Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Disappointment, Tired

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• Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

  Rob Portman

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.

  Rosamund Pike

  Fun, Heart, Mean

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• Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

  Tom Perrotta

  Growing Up, Writing, School

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