Might Have Been Quotes - Page 13

• I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

  Sam Elliott

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Horse, Men, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

  Seth Gabel

  Romance, Challenges, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Might, Facts, Chaos

  "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by icholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

  Tim McGraw

  Philosophy, Might, Pay

  Song: Red Rag Top

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• My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

  Harold Ramis

  Guy, Actors, Might

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

  Stephen Rea

  Play, Interesting, Might

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• As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

  Brian J. White

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

  Robert Updegraff

  Successful, Unfinished Business, Might

  Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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• There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.

  Jeb Bush

  School, Kids, Past

  "Megyn Kelly previews her exclusive interview with Jeb Bush". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2015.

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• The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Joy, Departed

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

  Robert Browning

  Comfort, Might, Succeed

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Editors, Ideas, Waiting

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

  John Dean

  House, Abuse, Tragedy

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• If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

  Charles Schumer

  Mad Cow Disease, People, Might

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• Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie

  Lonely, Hate, Adventure

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1993). “The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  David Letterman

  New York, Believe, Cities In The World

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• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Might, Saddest, Pens

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• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

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• Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Drama, Might

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• You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Heartbroken, Boys, Thinking

  Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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