Quotes with has-been

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  • Mario Vargas Llosa Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Alec Guinness Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Branch Rickey Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • James Reston Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brenda Blethyn Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Ben Carson Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bennie Thompson Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Jean Kerr Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Aristotle Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. E. Housman Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
    Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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