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“I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.”

Ifs Knows Should Looks Has Beens Character Stories Film Actors Written Benefits Should Have Storyteller Should Have Been

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.”

Men Should Has Beens Made Cases Thousand Should Have Harm Loyalty Tricks Rebellion Throwing Loyal Should Have Been Deceptive Yoke Iniquity

Author:Mark Twain

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

Ifs Should Trying Believe Has Beens Used Turns I Believe Interest My Own Century Dying Months Should Have Responsible Surprise Track Fewer 20th Century Deathbed Punctuation Chaps

Author:Lynne Truss

“That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.”

People Should Has Beens Political Sides Example Should Have Decent Republic Plato Astonishing Should Have Been Snobbery Plato S Plato's Republic

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.”

Should Has Beens Ready Should Have Live Life Should Have Been

Author:Ronald Rolheiser

“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”

“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”

Should Has Beens States Political Politics United United States Intellectual Should Have Servant Ironic Outsiders Should Have Been Scapegoat Political History

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.”

Should Has Beens Next Stuff Tvs Directors My Friends Standing Should Have Cameras Should Have Been

Author:Robert B. Weide

“I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.”

Should Has Beens Art Study Fans Should Have Should Have Been Notebook Ironman

Author:Clark Gregg

“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.”

Source: Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

“We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago.”

Needs Should Mean Long Has Beens War Age Cold Offers Weapons Should Have Ice Isolation Long Ago Cold War Negotiation Recipes Should Have Been Ukraine Ice Age Kremlin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Calling Should Have Interiors Should Have Been Decorators

Author:Victor Hugo

“That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.”

Should Has Beens Government Form Felt Support Successful Periods Understood Should Have Originals Experiments Establishment Should Have Been Props Undecided

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."”

“I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.”

Should Years Has Beens Able Found Should Have Seventies Should Have Been Lunatic Moron

Author:Ezra Pound

“I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.”

Way Feels Should Has Beens I Can Three Can Do Taken Prove Should Have Should Have Been Can't Change Prove Myself

Author:Clinton Portis

“No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.”

Should Has Beens Next Justice Rights Player Should Have Rounds Contracts Protected Exhausting Bargaining

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.”

Should Has Beens Made Causes Born Should Have Fighter Delicate Suggestions Should Have Been

Author:Margaret Caroline Anderson

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

Should Years Heart Children Has Beens Father Break My Heart Should Have My Children Should Have Been Breaking My Heart

Author:Bear Grylls

“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

“What's going to be hard for the United States is that our policy for a long time has been a two-state solution; the Palestinians should have their own state. Now, the Palestinians are going to the U.N. and saying, 'We're having the U.N. vote to say we have our own state. Well, if that's your policy, United States of America, why are you vetoing it?' Which we will do.”

Ifs Should Wells Long Has Beens Two Hard States America United United States Policy Long Time Solutions Should Have Vote Palestinian United States Of America

Author:Bill Maher

“I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.”

Should Firsts Has Beens Made Two Mistake Gone Couple Should Have Albums Rehab Victoria

Author:Robbie Williams

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

Should Has Beens Country Should Have Western Singers Should Have Been Country Western

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.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Government Economic Should Have Prosperity Spending Republic Desperation Inflation Stimulus Should Have Been Borrowed Unprecedented Runaway Government Spending

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".”

Should Mean Has Beens Interesting Vision Television Should Have Greek Latin Should Have Been Hybrid

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.”

Knows Should Has Beens Different Real Christ Return Right Now Should Have Preparation Should Have Been

Author:Mike Huckabee

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

Should Has Beens Tasks Should Have Useless Should Have Been Executing

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.”

Should Has Beens Enemy Hero Elements Weakness Should Have Vulnerable Touched Should Have Been

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.”

Should Wells Has Beens Night Black Rooms Party Events Should Have Absolutes My Favorite Actresses Celebrate Oscars Should Have Been

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.”

Should Has Beens Mother Humanity Father Stars Majors Should Have Dragons Tails Astrology Should Have Been Firmament Nativity

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

“We never had a pool, right. So one summer, I remember. My dad, to make me happy. You know I was bummed out cause we didn't have the pool. So one summer he bought us this thing. It was yellow, you laid it on the lawn, sprayed it with the water, run across. Slip n' Slide. Yeah. Would have been fun if dad checked for rocks before he laid it down! Slip n' Bleed from the anus they should have called this ride.”

Ifs Knows Should Has Beens Running Remember Fun Causes Water Rocks Dad Summer Should Have Yeah My Dad Yellow Pool Slips Slides Lawns Make Me Happy Bummed Out Anus

Author:Dane Cook

“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.”

Should Persons Has Beens My Own Acting Cities New York Should Have Excited Looking Back Terrified Should Have Been

Author:Rachel Boston

“Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.”

People Should Long Has Beens Country Long Time Should Have Immigration Native Immigrants Nerves Native American Shut Up Xenophobia

Author:Godfrey

“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.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Careers Advantage Should Have Management Treated Fighter Champion If I Could Could Have Been Should Have Been

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.”

Should Has Beens Made Problem Political Should Have Crisis Stupidity Made It Reform Inevitable Revolutionary Regimes Refusal Should Have Been Downfall Obstinate

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.”

People Should Has Beens Father Revolution Should Have Ironic Regimes Should Have Been Fitting Organisation

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.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Girl Reflection Should Have Sells Crowds Pops British Should Have Been Spices February Brits Spice Girls

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.”

“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.”

Knows Should Mean Has Beens Age Five Player Singing Should Have

Author:Trilok Gurtu

“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.”

Should Years Littles Has Beens Games Bits Couple Habit Little Bit Should Have Swings Should Have Been Bad Habits

Author:Rory McIlroy

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