Quotes with has-been

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  • Adam Jones I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bryan Burrough I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Publilius Syrus I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Richard Nixon I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bryan Fuller I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Lord Nelson I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
    Lord Nelson
     
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  • Benito Mussolini I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
    Source: Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Orson Welles I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
    Source: Collection 1: , Brighthouse
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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