Quotes with has-been

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  • Brendan Coyle If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Simone Weil If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • David Hockney If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Ben Hogan If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Richard D. Rosen If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arlen Specter If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Lord George Byron If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Boxer If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Betty Friedan If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
    Source: The Fountain of Age
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Arlen Specter If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Maloney If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Billy Casper If you can help anyone in any way, that is what we are here for. The pinnacle of my life has really been two lives - golf and service to my fellow man.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Stanley Kubrick If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bette Davis If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Carlos Ghosn If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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