Should Have Been Quotes

• I remember things the way they should have been.

  Truman Capote

  Should Have, Way, Remember

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• I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

  George Burns

  Country, Should Have, Singers

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• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  Napoleon Hill

  Business, Procrastination, Should Have

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.28, Penguin

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Intellectual

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Should Have, Politics, Politician

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

  Nicole Kidman

  Positive, Break Up, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 25, 2016

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• People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

  Rodney King

  Kings, Should Have, People

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

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• I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, War, Writing

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• Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Obamacare, Should Have

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• There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Should Have, People

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• My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Should Have, Class

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• I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

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• We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Should Have, Allies

  "Canadian Press Newswire", April 11, 2003.

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• Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

  Marvin Hagler

  Heart, Fighting, Should Have

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• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Godly, Should Have, Religion

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• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Long Ago, Should Have, Dying

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• If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Should Have, Stories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Wise, Jobs, Hate

  "Kate Beckinsale, on Girlfighting with Jessica Biel in 'Total Recall'". Interview with Grae Drake, www.fandango.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

  David Bowie

  Dad, Makeup, Thinking

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• When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

  Kurt Cobain

  Should Have, Band, Firsts

  "The Pixies Talk About Their Reunion, New Music and a Missing Band Member" by Andrew Romano, www.thedailybeast.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

  Ty Cobb

  Regret, College, Doctors

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• I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, Past, Self

  "Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Donald Cram

  Fog, Should Have, Ideas

  Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Should Have, Cities

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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