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“It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.”

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“I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.”

Should Has Beens Sports Should Have Exciting Athlete Should Have Been Gatorade

Author:Stephen Boss

“I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.”

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Author:George Burns

“Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.”

“Stubbornness should have been my middle name.”

Should Has Beens Names Middle Should Have Should Have Been Stubbornness

Author:Martin Luther

“If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Self Helping Suffering Virtue Self Esteem Band Should Have Albums Singers Esteem Arrogant Ignored Should Have Been Just Listen Quirky Heretic High Self Esteem

Author:Julian Gough

“Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".”

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Author:Graham Chapman

“If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.”

“Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?”

Should Has Beens Should Have Should Have Been Brethren

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.”

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Author:Jay Sekulow

“Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.”

Should Years Has Beens Years Ago Gold Should Have Hollywood Teeth Caps Should Have Been

Author:W. C. Fields

“One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.”

Should Has Beens War Society Drug Should Have Including Terrorism Coward Should Have Been War On Drugs

Author:Bill Maher

“"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.”

Should Has Beens Two Facts Language Mountain Should Have English Language Should Have Been Equestrian Brokeback Mountain

Author:Lewis Black

“The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy.”

Should Has Beens Girl House Should Have International Clubs Sexy Naked Magazines Britain Should Have Been Pancakes Cockneys

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?”

“I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.”

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Author:Rachel Boston

“I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.”

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Author:Larry Holmes

“Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.”

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Author:Orlando Figes

“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

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Book:A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

“I don't think the Spice Girls are celebrated as much as they should be. We championed British pop worldwide. We toured everywhere to sell-out crowds and I think there should have been a reflection of that at February's Brit's anniversary.”

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Author:Melanie Chisholm

“Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.”

“My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.”

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Author:Francois Guizot

“Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.”

People Should Years Has Beens Sometimes Done Age Years Ago Should Have Crisis Agree Financial International Obvious Architecture Should Have Been

Author:Gordon Brown

“Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“I feel like the only person who has a chance against Alejandro González Iñárritu is Lenny Abrahamson. [The Room] was very awkward, very odd, very uncomfortable as it should have been. And then it became very beautiful. It tugged all the emotional chords beautifully.”

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Author:Bun B

“When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.”

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Author:Ainsley Earhardt

“At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.”

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Author:Leonard Peltier

“I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.”

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Author:Robin Lim

“I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.”

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Author:Ryan Lochte

“Canelo is a good young fighter, but he probably shouldn't be in the ring with me. It should have been somebody else. Hopefully he can learn from it and become a better fighter. He seems like a good young kid.”

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Author:Shane Mosley

“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?”

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Author:Jill Stein

“Matt Lauer asked her [Hillary Clinton] tough questions, in fact, questions that should have been asked and followed up on by the FBI in their investigation where they came to a rosy conclusion. So to me, this was actually very helpful. And I think obviously it was big moment there, right out of the bat when we had the naval officer who really put it to Hillary and said listen .”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.”

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Author:Kevin Drum

“The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He won states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, which should have been Hillary Clinton's the whole time. And they were his because of the message, because of the way he's a master communicator and a master connecter.”

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Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.”

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Author:Steven Knight

“Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had suspicions about the vote in Ohio. And, by the way, Richard Nixon had suspicions in 1960 about the vote in Chicago when he lost to JFK.”

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Author:David Remnick

“Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!”

“I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

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