Has Beens Quotes - Page 37

• The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

  Anton Seidl

  Ability, Gift From God

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Long, Important, United States

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

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• My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

  Blake Shelton

  Book, Open Book

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• The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

  George Edmund Street

  Country, Taken, Men

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• The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

  Dubai, Years, San Francisco

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.22, A&C Black

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• When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

  George Saunders

  Kids, Greek, World

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• I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

  John Schlesinger

  Tongue, Cheeks, Felt

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• For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.

  John Stamos

  Years, House, Fans

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

  Julian Lennon

  Goal, Pops, Persons

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

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• Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Nice, Thinking, Fantastic

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

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• I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

  Jeremy Sumpter

  People, Laughing, Scene

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