Quotes with has-been

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  • P. J. O'Rourke Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Few men have been admired of their familiars.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robertson Davies Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Harry Houdini Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Beatrice Wood First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Barry Levinson First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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