"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

Time, Illusion

"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

Van Jones, American Activist

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

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"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."

Time

"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."

Years

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

Talent

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

Education

"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

Life

"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

Work

"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."

Years

"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."

Right

"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."

Strength

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."

Society