Quotes with has-been

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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Cosby That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Seneca That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Hitopadesa That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Helene Deutsch That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.
    Source: Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue (1973)
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Cordell Hull That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • L'Engle Madeleine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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