Could Have Been Quotes - Page 16

• I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Philosophy, Destiny, Small Changes

  Song: I Could Have Been You, Album: Your Little Secret

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Different, Hiv, Stories

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• It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Writing, Mind, Study

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Angel, Men

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• It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.

  Robert Silverberg

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

  Jayson Williams

  Goal, Has Beens

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• If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

  Billy West

  People, Forever, Trying

  "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

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• There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Surveillance, Possibility, Has Beens

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• I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.

  John Quincy Adams

  Struggle, Years, Independence

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

  Peter DeFazio

  Size, Harvest, Illegal

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• When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

  Elvis Presley

  Reality, Men, Cities

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• There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

  John Hickenlooper

  New Orleans, Looks, Devastation

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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  Fran Drescher

  Hair, Stuck, Wells

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• We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Numbers, People, Saws

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Drawing, Scary

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• It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Years, Different

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• Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

  Carol Alt

  Girl, Calling, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

  Eason Jordan

  Taken, Benefits, Care

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• Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

  David Milne

  Powerful, White, Paper

  David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press

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• My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

  Joe Namath

  Philosophy, Trying, Different

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• I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

  Alberto Manguel

  Mother, Attachment, Giving

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• We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

  Bill Bruford

  Usa, Guy, Different

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