Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Bill Frist If Senator Reid had come to me and said, 'This is a problem,' which he never did, I would have said, 'Let's talk about it.' I would have said, 'Let's bring in the Intelligence Committee or the leaders, and let's talk about it in a civil, a dignified, a respectful way.
    Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session, Fox News, November 1, 2005.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bono If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Brian Austin Green If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bob Diamond If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Billy West If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Beck If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • John Lennon If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Norman Cousins If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
    Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Blank If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • B. B. King If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Kristol If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Johnson If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bhagat Singh If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
    As quoted in Awakening Indians to India
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ronald Reagan If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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