Has Beens Quotes (page 118)

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• beautiful
• beauty
• gift

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Edward Gibbon

• life
• grateful
• feeling

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had. Ben Gibbard

• life
• game
• nintendo

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game. Robin Gibb

• film
• criticize
• me

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. Paul Giamatti

• moving
• images
• impressive

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti

• personality
• inspirational
• wellness

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration. Carlos Ghosn

• greatness
• business
• career

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. Paul Getty

• pride
• usefulness
• using

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. Paul Getty

• family
• grateful
• support

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful. Gordon Getty

• inspirational
• difficult
• your life

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life. Estelle Getty

• sports
• enough
• you me

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa. Haile Gebrselassie

• critical
• critic
• criticisms

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. Theophile Gautier

• black
• new
• ironic

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates

• poor people
• great
• justice

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. Henry Louis Gates

• caring
• world
• tough

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. Bill Gates