Been Quotes · Page 146

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been…

— James Salter

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

— Ian Mckellen

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

— Dario Fo

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by…

— Philippe Petit

I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.

— Tim Howard

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never…

— Jonah Lomu

When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!

— Jamie Vardy

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

— Michelle Alexander

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

— Adam Beach

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of…

— Jane Birkin

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

— Theodore Zeldin

I always wanted to have my own boutiques. I'm so passionate about clothing and always have been so business-minded.

— Amy Childs

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

— Eric Topol

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

— Troye Sivan

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

— Bo Schembechler

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do…

— Miranda Lambert

It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and - my personal favorite - that I deny the Trinity.

— Paula White

Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

— Caitlyn Jenner

The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.

— Masha Gessen

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

— Alan Stern

Rosewood has always been one of my favourite scents, as has the pink grapefruit and pepper we've also put in Homme.

— David Beckham

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

— Tina Brown

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.

— Gary Hart

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

— Letitia James

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their…

— Asia Kate Dillon

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

— Eric Holder

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been…

— Eva Figes

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

— Joe Paterno

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm…

— Tite Kubo

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

— Betty Comden

There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.

— Lisa Morton

I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

— Zac Efron

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

— Ashley Wagner

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us…

— Ian Rankin

When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've…

— Tony McCoy

Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.

— Olly Murs

I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.

— Blake Lively

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

— Carol Gilligan

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

— James O'Shaughnessy