Has Beens Quotes - Page 7

• Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

  Susie Orbach

  Stars, Movie Star, Invitations

  "Body confidence and the new political line on beauty" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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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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• What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

  Horatio Bottomley

  Education, Poor, University

  Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

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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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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Drama, Littles, Poetic

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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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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• Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

  Bill Dixon

  Groups, Possibility, Realms

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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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• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

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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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• Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

  Herman Cain

  War, Years, Trying

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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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• Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Real, Years, Csi

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• 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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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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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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• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

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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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• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  Mary Douglas

  Steps, Next, Arguing

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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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• Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

  George P. Shultz

  Political, Reason, Economic

  "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.

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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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• I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Actors, Critics

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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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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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