George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The person I miss most is the one I could have been."
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Could Have Been
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Barack Obama
Politician
"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"I could have been a great many things."
Yancy Butler
Actress
"Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel."
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"I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself."
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"God, I wish you could have been there."
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"No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised."
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"Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?"
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"I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better."
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