Been Quotes

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.