462 Quotes About Has-beens


  • Author Dave Brubeck
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    I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

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  • Author Donald Barthelme
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    We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

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  • Author Donald Byrd
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    My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

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  • Author Ella Baker
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    In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

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