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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic."

"I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes."

"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."

"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."

"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician."

"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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