Quotes with has-been

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  • Brad Henry What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Ben Gibbard What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Barry Diller What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • A. A. Milne What? said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
    Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Three
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Frank Sinatra Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Seneca Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Bruford Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bram Fischer Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • Anna Held Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
    Source: History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • William James Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Karl Kraus When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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