Has Beens Quotes - Page 8

• 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 haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

  Cameron Diaz

  Trying, Worried, Projects

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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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• A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

  Howard Gardner

  Organization, Long, People

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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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• If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

  Steve Carell

  Levels, Might, Jerk

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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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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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.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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• As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

  Emily Procter

  Adoption, Parent, Different

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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 love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

  Morena Baccarin

  Song, Cheesy, Road Trip

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

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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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• The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

  Robert Pozen

  Years, Quality, Patents

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• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Mistake, Fighting

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

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• Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

  William C. Kirby

  War, Believe, Inevitable

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• TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

  David Anders

  Tvs, Film, Very Good

  "David Anders Talks THE REVENANT and ONCE UPON A TIME; Says 'GAME OF THRONES Is My Wet Dream'". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  Eve Arnold

  Children, Poverty, Birth

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

  Laz Alonso

  Determination, Hard Work, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

  John Barrasso

  Law, Obamacare, People

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

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

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• 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 very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

  Sara Bareilles

  Beautiful, Artist, Want

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

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• I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

  Adam Brody

  Kissing, Years, Meg

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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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