Has Beens Quotes - Page 40

• I have been recording for five decades now.

  Chuck Mangione

  Five, Decades

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• Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

  Claire McCaskill

  Careers, Issues, Choices

  "McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Winning, Careers

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• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

  David Mixner

  Struggle, Issues, Rights

  "Interview with Evan Wolfson: Marriage Equality and the Presidential Election" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

  Dick Morris

  Art, Mean, Sacrifice

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• I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

  Eleanor Mondale

  College, Eight, Years

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• There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

  Ernest Mandel

  Years, Important, World

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

  Ethel Merman

  People, Want, Advantage

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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Long, People

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  Ian MacKaye

  Beautiful, Quality, Example

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  Ian MacKaye

  Track, Decision, Want

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

  Tony Visconti

  Order, Years, Track

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• I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

  Allison Williams

  Girl, Fall, Yale

  "Beautiful Minds: 10 Inspiring, Always-Stylish Women". www.elle.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

  Edgar Wright

  Fascination, Watches, Horror

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

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• My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

  Kevin Whately

  Generations, My Family, Five

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• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Mean, People

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• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  N. T. Wright

  Church, Demise, Century

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  Randi Weingarten

  May, Adults, Republican

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• I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

  Rebecca Wells

  Taken, Mean, Beloved

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• I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

  Rebecca Wells

  Children, Character, Writing

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• BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.

  Peter Welch

  Responsibility, People, Week

  "Rep. Peter Welch to make BP Put 'Its Money Where Its Mouth Is'" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

  Peter Welch

  Fighting, Thinking, Winning

  "Congressman Welch: We in Congress have to look in the mirror". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

  Peter Welch

  Class, Conscious, States

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• I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

  Ray Walston

  Hands, Should Have, Careers

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