Quotes with has-been

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  • Carl Rogers When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. I have deeply appreciated the times that I have experienced this sensitive, empathic, concentrated listening.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bjork When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Mandrell When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Clinton When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Bob Harper When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Paul Klee When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • John Gray When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Pope When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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