Quotes with has-been

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  • Albert Einstein When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruce Springsteen When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Amy Clampitt When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
    Amy Clampitt
    American poet and author
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  • William Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Harry Browne When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Callie Khouri When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Bill Rancic When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Russell Hoban When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • C. P. Snow When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
    Source: Public Affairs
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Billy Ocean When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
    Billy Ocean
     
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  • Bel Powley When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
    Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • René Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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