"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice."

Time, Choice, Holiday, Religious

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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

Time, Action, Singing, Song

"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

Time, Management, Job

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

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"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

Time, Conscience, Energy, Fighting

"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

Time, Mind, Perception, Experience

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

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Time, Work, People, Democracy

"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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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."

Circumstance

"As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse."

Aging

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

Television

"My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible."

Humor

"The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire."

Now

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."

Life

"Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects."

Statistics

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."

Dance

"Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash."

Driving

"At a national political convention, you have hundreds of people who consider themselves at least as important as the Secretary of Commerce. If it's a Democratic convention, you also have dozens of A-list Hollywood and music celebrities. (If it's a Republican convention, you have Bo Derek.) Also you have swarms of lower-ranking Washington minions with titles like Deputy Assistant to the Associate Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff who are trying to move up the ladder to Deputy Associate to the Assistant Acting Deputy Assistant Understudy."

Politics