"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."
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"This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me."
"Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful."
"As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen."
"I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along."
"All the great ages have been ages of belief."
"To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned."
"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
"It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came."
"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
"One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard."
"My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives."
"In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly."
"I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had."
"I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters."
"Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made."
"My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it."
"There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?"
"I have been photographed to death."
"If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them."