Has Beens Quotes - Page 5

• I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

  James Lovelock

  Believe, Data, Mind

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

  Paul Keating

  Passion, Belief, Process

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

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• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

  Arthur Keith

  Opposites, Christianity, Cases

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  Talcott Parsons

  Doe, Facts, States

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

  Jessica Lange

  Acting, Photojournalists, Extraordinary

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Meat, Want

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• Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

  George P. Shultz

  Order, Weakness, States

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• I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

  Roberta Flack

  Doctors, Weight, Lost

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• Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

  David Frum

  Views, People, Tone

  "Despite setbacks, Frum beats on" by Daniel Libit, www.politico.com. September 01, 2009.

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• Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

  Christian Lacroix

  Names, Ideas, World

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• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Vices, Cost, Sap

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

  Heidi Klum

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

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• All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

  Paula Abdul

  Lying, Taught, Taking The High Road

  "As the 'American Idol' turns". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2005.

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• I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Looks, Pops

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• Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

  Joe Manchin

  Proud, Firsts, Lifetime

  "Gun Advocate Sen. Joe Manchin Calls For Gun Law Changes After Newtown". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

  Brandy Norwood

  Sexy, Eye, Clothes

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

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• I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Television, Arguing

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.

  Novak Djokovic

  Order, Want, Dedicated

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• I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Fun, Pain, Blessed

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• History has been the history of warfare.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Warfare

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

  Edward St Aubyn

  People, Way, Detachment

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• My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

  Sean Hannity

  Blessed, Imagination, Take Me

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• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Islam, Used, Certain

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Thinking

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• I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

  Christina Aguilera

  Past, Serious, Feels

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