Has Beens Quotations

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

All my life I have been a nomad.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.