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Has Beens Quotes - Page 12

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

"Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

My life has been regulated by insomnia.

Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

"The Walking Drum". Book by Louis L'Amour, 1984.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

I should like to have been killed in the war.

John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele (2002). “Intelligence, race, and genetics: conversations with Arthur R. Jensen”, Basic Books

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.70, Head of Zeus