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"I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head."

"I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head."

Halle Berry, American Actress

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"Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it."

"Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it."

Derek Luke, American Actor

Time, Hope, Actors

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"First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control."

"First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control."

Anatoly Karpov, Russian Celebrity

Time, Control, First

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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

Anne Sullivan, American Educator

Time, Purpose, Beginning, Will

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"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."

"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."

Thom Yorke, English Musician

Time, Intentions, Mankind

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"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."

"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."

William Goldman, American Novelist

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"They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time."

"They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time."

Dorothy Day, American Activist

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"I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God."

"I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God."

Bede Griffiths, British Clergyman

Time, God, Existence

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"Time flies never to be recalled."

"Time flies never to be recalled."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."

"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."

James Anthony Froude, English Historian

Time, Mistakes, Teachers

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"I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap."

"I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap."

Jim Coleman, American Actor

Time, Film, School

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"Time will tell us what we did and didn't do."

"Time will tell us what we did and didn't do."

Harvey Fierstein, American Actor

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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Time, Deep, Eternity, Silence

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"With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program."

"With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program."

Bernhard Goetz, American Vigilante

Time, Options, Regret, School

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"At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time."

"At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time."

Mike McCready, American Musician

Time, Choices, Right, Years

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"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Time, Energy, Mankind

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"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."

"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."

Daniel Day Lewis, British Actor

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"People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming."

"People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming."

Gwen Ifill, American Journalist

Time, People, Applause, Audiences

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"For time is the longest distance between two places."

"For time is the longest distance between two places."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness."

"Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness."

Sean Paul, Jamaican Musician

Time, Being, Respect

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"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."

"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Time, Trust, First, Order

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"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."

"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

Time, Miracles, Reason, Spirit

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"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."

"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."

Maggie Gyllenhaal, American Actress

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"I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner."

"I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

Time, Thought, Marathon, Running

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"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary

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"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well."

"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well."

Billy Sherwood, American Musician

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"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."

"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."

Yancy Butler, American Actress

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"Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time."

"Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Time, Income, Pleasure

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"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress

Time, Diaries, Girls

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"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence."

"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence."

Jared Diamond, American Author

Time, Globalization, Islands, Space

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"Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up."

"Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up."

Javier Bardem, Spanish Actor

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"It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me."

"It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me."

Luke Perry, American Actor

Time, Chance, Film, First

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"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."

"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

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"The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back."

"The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back."

John Cusack, American Actor

Time, Work, Celebrity

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"People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time."

"People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time."

Gerry Mulligan, American Musician

Time, People, Nonsense, Talk

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"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."

"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."

Larry Wall, Canadian Author

52

"I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England."

"I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England."

Louis Leakey, British Scientist

Time, England, Tools

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"There's no down time any more."

"There's no down time any more."

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

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"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."

"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."

Elizabeth Taylor, English Actress

Time, Growing up

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"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."

"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."

Russ Carnahan, American Politician

Time, People, Act

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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Time, Force, Old, Trouble

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"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

Time, Mother, First, Old

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"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming."

"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming."

Holly Johnson, English Musician

Time, Occupation, Writing

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"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion."

"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion."

Major Owens, American Politician

Time, Virtue, Compassion, Competition

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"Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves."

"Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves."

Johnny Ramone, American Musician

Time, Republicans

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"The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low."

"The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low."

Parker Stevenson, American Actor

Time, Work, Boys

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"Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering."

"Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering."

Ethel Rosenberg, American Criminal

Time, Privilege, Self

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"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative."

"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

Time, Work, Thought, Career

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"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

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"I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored."

"I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored."

Paul Lynde, American Comedian

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