#been

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. ↗

— Milton Berle

#been #cannot #far #has-been #i

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach. ↗

— Halle Berry

#been #belief #had #i #innate

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. ↗

— George Phillips Bond

#astronomy #been #bodies #celestial #century

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. ↗

— Bono

#anyone #been #development #discovered #done

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#bernstein #carrying #coal #decide #off

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

#because #been #building #burnt #charged

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#am #been #best #best friend #ever

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#cancer #devastating #effects #family #hitting

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic