Quotes with has-been

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Carl Hagelin For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • William Shakespeare For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Boethius For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia  Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Camilla Belle For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Ben Simmons For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time I step out on the court. If I don't deliver and play well, then I know I haven't been working hard enough.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Plympton For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Bhagavad Gita For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Billy Corgan For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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