Been Quotes

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

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

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.