Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Adlai Stevenson II Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bryan Batt Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bert McCracken Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brad Feld Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Anne Campbell Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Alan Kay Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Ben Carson Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Janet Guthrie Racing takes everything you've got - intellectually, emotionally, physically - and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.
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  • Angela Davis Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Brandon DiCamillo Ralph could you please sit down and behave yourself or we are going to have to throw you out. As a matter of fact Ralph can you leave right now?....Ok sit down.
    From Brans Icelandic Gameshow
    Brandon DiCamillo
    American actor, stunt performer, filmmaker and musician (1976 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Cat Stevens Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
    As quoted in Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie, by Craig R. Whitney, in The New York Times (23 May 1989), p. C18
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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