Should Have Been Quotes - Page 3

• 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'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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• 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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• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Motivational, Dance, Business

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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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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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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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• You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror.

  Jay Asher

  Mom, Mirrors, Should Have

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.188, Penguin

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• The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Moon, Night, Air

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

  Kate Morton

  Photography, Art, Memories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stars, Blow, Lakes

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.166, Macmillan

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

  Gene Tierney

  Passion, Should Have, House

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Should Have, Talent, Born

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• Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Should Have, Adults

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• I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Believe, Should Have

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  Quintilian

  Men, Should Have, Dumb

  "De Institutione Oratoria". Book by Quintilian,

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• Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Anxiety, Ships

  "The Man and the Artist".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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