Could Have Been Quotes - Page 18

• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

  David Gest

  Mean, Special, Wanted

  "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.  Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Empowering, Scare

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• You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

  Jamie Dimon

  Real, Book, Recovery

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• I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Careers, Poetry

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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• A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

  Margery Wilson

  Success, Deep Within, Has Beens

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• I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

  Troy Donahue

  Real, Film, Dialogue

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, World, Negotiation

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• I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

  Sara Zarr

  Passion, Discipline, Violin

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• I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Education, Years, Four

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• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

  David Gest

  Wanted, Has Beens, Ifs

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Color, Blind

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• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  Yancy Butler

  Proud, Standpoint, Has Beens

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Father, Conservative

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• If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dream, Years, Dancer

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• The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Communication, People, Atheism

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• If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger

  Tony Cascarino

  Stronger, Wenger, Window

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• How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  War, Eye, Men

  "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

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• I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

  Brandon Routh

  Growing Up, Fans, Fiction

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, June 16, 2006.

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• Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, People, Has Beens

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book of by G. K. Chesterton, Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Ch. 11: The School for Hypocrites, 1910.

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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• ... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Taken, Wind, People

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• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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