Quotes with has-been

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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Louis de Bernieres It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Source: Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Barton It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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