Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."
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Has Beens
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Claude Monet
Painter
"It is better to have done something than to have been someone."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
Claude Monet
Painter
"I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love."
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"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed."
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"It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since."
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"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life."
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"Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell."
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"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."
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"Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead."
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"He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite."
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"The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life."
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"What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible."
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"All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested."
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"My life and art have not been separated. They have been together."
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"My life has been an open book, for better or for worse."
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"If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one."
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"To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
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"Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding."
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"We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism."
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"I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less."
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"Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges"
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"Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die."
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"I am not now That which I have been."
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