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Been Quotes by Isabel Allende
- Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight…
- I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
- Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of…
- I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even…
- I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:…
- The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice…
- If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for…
- January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well…
- I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past…
- My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great…
- I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour