Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Cate Blanchett It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Scott O'Grady It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
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  • Archibald Alexander It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Brad Sherman It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Anita Hill It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Al Gore It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bubba Watson It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Barbara Walters It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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