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We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? — Jon Bon Jovi

The only thing I've been concerned about is whether I could grow my heart thing enough to protect me from the harsh western Canadian winter. — Sean Avery

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be. — Lou Reed

I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless? — Veronica Roth

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. — Christina Aguilera

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets! — Cathy East Dubowski

I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want? — Michael Cunningham

Has there ever been anything in your life you've learned that you wish you could take back knowing? — Katie McGarry

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. — Tom Cruise

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do. — Kacy Catanzaro

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye. — Lucian Freud

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could. — Andrew Forrest

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been. — Beyonce Knowles

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was. — Jennifer Donnelly

I could not fill those expectations. I've never been presented to the queen," Hamilton said. "Because we live in America and don't have a queen. — Jen Turano

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. — Alysia Harris

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner. — Rob Lowe

You poor thing. I wish I could've been there to save you."
"You did save me. You save me every single day. — Portia De Rossi

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God. — Roma Downey

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. — Curt Schilling

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while. — Azealia Banks

Weren't we though? Timeless? Nothing could change what we'd had all those years before, even if the idea of what might've been lingered between us. — Renee Carlino

This new guy had shoulder-length, darkish hair and a face so perfectly handsome he could've been a movie star. — Joanna Wylde

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. — Kurt Vile

I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen. — Cassandra Clare

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey] — J.K. Rowling

Nothing yet. I've been waiting."
"for what?"
she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him. — Milan Kundera

The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone. — Emma Cline

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me. — Desiree Rogers

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. — Christian Marclay

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone. — Jami Attenberg

How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie — Theresa Alan

Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been. — Kirsten Hubbard

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager. — Dolly Parton

As I've said, ARPA had been created in response to Sputnik, and one of its key organizing principles was that collaboration could lead to excellence. — Ed Catmull

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard. — Glenn T. Seaborg

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics. — John Rhys-Davies

I've fixed my feelings into durable words
when they could have been spent on tenderness — BORGES JORGE LUIS

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life. — Anthony Doerr

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. — Sigrid Agren

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves. — Shakti Gawain

The things I could have done had Hollywood been more open? I don't dwell on coulda-woulda-shoulda. Because, hey, I've had a great career. — Pepe Serna

I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.' — Kaley Cuoco

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you. — Katherine Anne Porter

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do. — Richard McCabe

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending — Jodi Picoult

I don't expect you to have no regrets about who you've lost along the way. How could you not have been loved before, when I love you so much? — Deborah Harkness

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times ... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun. — Jimmy Fallon

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave. — Al Jourgensen

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? — Shane MacGowan

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him. — Tullian Tchividjian

You're my could've been, should've been but never was and never will. — Unknown

There is no point in thinking of what could've been; no point in belaboring the past. — Christine Fonseca

I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am. — Marc Forgione

I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen. — Victoria Aveyard

I snorted. PJ. He could've been called BJ for the way he was acting, on his knees and at the guy's beck and call. — Tijan

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie. — Benicio Del Toro

I've been worried for a long time. I've just been doing what I could. I don't really have much choice. — Makoto Shinkai

I've always believed that we could reach past genre
we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. — Billy Corgan

Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down. — Melissa Tagg

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing. — Gold Panda

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey. — Larry Mullen Jr.

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully. — Marian Seldes

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child. — Tamsin Greig

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now. — Waylon Jennings

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters. — Leon Brown

It could have been possible to put a little more fuck you into his tone, but some of it might've slopped out the sides. — Lilith Saintcrow

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver. — James Nesbitt

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come. — Cat Stevens

Some moments I believed Max could've easily been Red Riding Hood's wolf. But she probably would have liked it. — Shannon Delany

No one ever gets to see what could've been. — Charlie Tahan

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! — Kathryn Lasky

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning. — Mr. Nobody

Next time you could just pee in a circle around me so that they know you've already been there. — Jay Crownover

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. — Rumi

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home. — Brittany Bowe

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could've sworn that was where he'd been the past ten years. — Kelly Moran

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work. — Ellen DeGeneres

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records. — Mayer Hawthorne

You could have been one of us." "Death would've been a better option. — Lisa McMann

I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest. — Anthony Jeselnik

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. — Jane Rule

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. — January Jones

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman. — Erin Richards

You've been a thief of nuts. No wonder you turned into one." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on. — Matthew McConaughey

I've been trying to be the best representative for my school, my family, and the USGA as I possibly could. — Peter Uihlein

While you've been away, I've been copying poems out in a book so that I could whisper them to you as you fell asleep. — Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime. — Mia Maestro

I wish I'd been born in another time, another place. Then maybe I could've escaped fate ... maybe I could've been your darling. — Nalini Singh

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time. — Aaron Levie

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be. — Judith Jamison

I could've been a professional rugby player... but then I saw a new Gaunt's Ghosts book come out... — John Charles Scott

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius. — George Carlin

You've been my beacon of light in my storm of grief, and I don't know if I could live without you. — Katie Ashley

After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex. — Chuck Palahniuk