Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor – unassisted.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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  • William Feather Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Margaret Drabble Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bell Hooks Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alphonse Karr Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Edward Everett Hale Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
    Edward Everett Hale
    American author, historian, and Unitarian minister (0 - 1909)
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Peter McArthur Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
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  • Brad Meltzer Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Bert Lance Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Jim Rohn Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Magnus Carlsen Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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