Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
    Aint It Cool News interview
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bo Bennett Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Titus Livy Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Bill Maris Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bess Myerson Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Beth Brooke Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ang Lee Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Cayley Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Candice Bergen Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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