Been Quotes

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

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

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.