Been Quotes

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.