Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Art Buchwald Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
    If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street?
    If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
    Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Billy Joel Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • B. Wayne Hughes Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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  • Ben Johnson Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?... O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Beah Richards Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Thomas Troward Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Castle He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jack Nicklaus He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles II He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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