Been Quotes

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Businesswise, everything's been good.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

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.