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Time Quotes



"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."


"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show."


"We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed."


"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."


"There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere-it doesn't all get used up at once. "I may still be hung over, sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."



"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."
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"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"


"One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun."


"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."



"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."


"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."


"To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time."


"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."



"Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it."


"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."



"Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time."


"The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer."


"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."



"If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college."


"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."


"I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time."


"To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour."


"I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest."


"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."


"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing."


"This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman."
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