Been Quotes

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.