Has Beens Quotes - Page 38

• Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Years, Organization, Symphony

  Leonard Slatkin (2017). “Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry”, p.200, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

  Maggie Smith

  Couple, Writing, Years

  "Maggie Smith Fighting To Stagger Through The Last Harry Potter" by Josh Tyler, www.cinemablend.com. October 06, 2009.

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• For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ocean, Weather, Air

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• I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Blessed, Play, People

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

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• We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Class, World

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Nfl, Broken

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

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• One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

  Tom Skerritt

  Responsibility, People, Directors

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• Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

  Willard Scott

  Done, Flukes

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• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!

  Zack Snyder

  Mean, People, Done

  "Exclusive: Zack Snyder Talks 300". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 9, 2006.

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• I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Team, Reality, Self

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• I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

  Charlize Theron

  Mean, Past, Lucky

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• As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

  George Tenet

  Powerful, War, Past

  Director of Central Intelligence Remarks on Iraq's WMD Programs, www.cia.gov. February 5, 2004.

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• It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Doctors, Years

  "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

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• Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

  Jim Talent

  Government, Leader, World

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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  Laini Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Hard Times

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• I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

  Mike Tice

  Football, Cutting, Teeth

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• My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

  Niki Taylor

  Life Lesson, Important, Lessons

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• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

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• I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

  Robin Tunney

  Crafts, Proud, Matter

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• I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fun, Sibling, Waiting

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• I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Believe, Successful, People

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

  Mark Udall

  Mom, Sibling, Kids

  "Make the Kids to Parks Day Pledge" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

  Alicia Vikander

  Training, Six, Foundation

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• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

  Charles M. Vest

  Goal, Research, Congress

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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