Has Beens Quotes - Page 6

• Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

  Rick Bass

  Dream, Ambition, Compromise

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• I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

  Sara Bareilles

  Artist, Apples, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Struggle, Special

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

  Andre Braugher

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

  Anthony Braxton

  Jazz, Concerned, Contemporary

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• Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Past, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Theatre, Lucky

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• My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Mom, Dad, Three

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  Edward T. Hall

  People, Theatre, Experts

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• Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

  George Vaillant

  Opportunity, Three, Privilege

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, America, Stupidity

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

  Christopher Walken

  Very Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

  Daniel Dennett

  Expression, Revolutionary, Given

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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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• The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, War, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

  David Cronenberg

  Baby, Sex, Mean

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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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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• The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

  Larry Wall

  World, Expanding, Perl

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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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• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

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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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• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  Ed Rollins

  Littles, Tough, Shock

  "Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on you, Michele" by Edward Rollins, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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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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