Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Brendan Fraser All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Casey Stengel All you have to do is keep the five players who hate your guts away from the five who are undecided.
    The Guardian Book of Sports Quotes, ed. John Samuel (1985)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Earl Nightingale All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • August Wilson All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Parsons Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bob Ney Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bill Dedman Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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