Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Arthur Golden What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carl Sagan What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Casey Affleck What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Barbara Coloroso What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Bill Cosby What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Jackson What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Anthony Holden What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alfred de Vigny What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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