Might Have Been Quotes - Page 17

• I was surprised that President [Barak] Obama would be so bold to come here [UK] and tell people what to do.I think a lot of people don't like him and I think if he had not said it I think you're result might have been different.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Successful, Catholic

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• Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Growing Up, School, People

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• It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

  Steve Miller

  Successful, Too Late, Might

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• If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

  W. S. Merwin

  Thinking, Different, Might

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

  Norman Lock

  Drama, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been...it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, World, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Photography, War, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.

  Philip French

  Stars, Two, People

  "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• We might have been a free and great people together.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, History, Together

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

  Ronald Wright

  Dirty, Dark, Night

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

  William Friedkin

  Fate, Thinking, Lines

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Thinking, Impact

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Disappointment, Grateful

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

  Agnes Varda

  Dancer, Blonde, Singers

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Land, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

  Rita Dove

  School, Thinking, White

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

  Roger Scruton

  Loyalty, Attitude, Hands

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• Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

  Robert Orben

  Taxation Without Representation, Might, Wonder

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• ... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

  Bliss Perry

  Ideas, Might, Frogs

  Bliss Perry (2014). “A Study of Poetry”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Two, Mail

  "Transcript: Everything Hillary Clinton Said on the Email Controversy". Press conference, time.com. March 10, 2015.

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• If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

  Wendell Johnson

  Might, Has Beens, Ifs

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• No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

  David Berlinski

  Men, Might, Has Beens

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