Quotes with has-been

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 5418.

  • Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Andrew Johnson I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Bruce Sutter I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Tom Lehrer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Source: Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
    Burton Rascoe
     
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Burnie Burns I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
    Source:  (2005)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Albert Speer I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Bruce Hornsby I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Bryan Callen I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • James R. Cook I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
    James R. Cook
     
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  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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