Quotes with has-been

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  • Bill Hicks Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years......thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
    Source: Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben E. King Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Barry Schwartz Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Homer Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
    He thinks too much;
    such men are dangerous.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edgar A. Guest You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
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  • C. S. Lewis You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arundhati Roy You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Anne Hathaway You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
    Anne Hathaway
     
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  • Bonnie Wright You can be on holiday abroad, in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, and someone will recognise you, and you just think, How far has this spread?
    Source: How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bob Anderson You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
    Bob Anderson
     
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  • Salman Rushdie You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Malcolm X You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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