Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Al Sharpton My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Casey Wilson My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Bailee Madison My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Balthazar Getty My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Buck Owens My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Adam Sandler My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • James Thurber My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Ben Stein My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bill Burr My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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