Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Beth Brooke My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barry Sanders My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
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  • Lee Trevino My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • James Thurber My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Goldberg My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Robinson My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bill Parcells My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
    The New York Times (12 December 2004)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barry Lopez My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bella Thorne My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bow Wow My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Forsyth My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jean Paul Getty My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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