Has Beens Quotes - Page 4

• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, Invasion

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• A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

  Janet Fitch

  Coins, Too Much, Language

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

  Christian Bale

  Numbers, Months, Wanted

  "Dark Star", www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2005.

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• Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, War, Mistake

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• The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

  Katarina Witt

  Long, Desire, Long Time

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• In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Real, Class, People

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• Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

  Ben Elton

  Comedy, Instinct

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• If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

  Pat Buchanan

  Media, Revolution, Medical

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• Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Death, Solitude, Dying

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Fighting, Views

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  People, Imagine, Disaster

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• Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

  Saint Basil

  Dream, Sleep, Exercise

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Years, Play

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Native American, White, Simplicity

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

  Bill Dixon

  Encores, Left, Reserves

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• I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

  Bill Dixon

  Play, Use, Delay

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• My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

  Bill Dixon

  Careers, People, Different

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• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Bill Dixon

  Art, Tired, Years

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• But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

  Betty Ford

  Recovery, Years, Understanding

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• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  James Spader

  Thinking, Way, Becoming

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• My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Important

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• Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kids, Blood, Littles

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• Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

  Rita Coolidge

  People, Friendly, Records

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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