Quotes with has-been

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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barnett Newman We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Felix Frankfurter We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Burnie Burns We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Alvar Aalto We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
    Alvar Aalto
    Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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  • John D. Mcdonald We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Arnold Toynbee We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • B. Kevin Turner We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Campbell Newman We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Susan Jeffers We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
    Susan Jeffers
     
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  • Black Kettle We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Andrew Cohen We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Murray We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
    Arthur Murray
     
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