Quotes with has-been

Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 5418.

  • Boethius In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Newt Gingrich In every election in American history both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.
    Newt Gingrich
    American statesman and author (1943 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ann Coulter In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Birch Bayh In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Brett Somers In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
    Brett Somers
     
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  • Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Camille Paglia In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Buzz Aldrin In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carol Loomis In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carole King In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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