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"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
Jeremy Bentham
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
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"How time files when you's doin' all the talking."
Harvey Fierstein
"How time files when you's doin' all the talking."
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"The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor."
Donna Mills
"The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor."
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"Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!"
Zakk Wylde
"Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!"
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"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
Davy Crockett
"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
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"We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three."
Kurtwood Smith
"We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three."
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"But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me."
Mel Tillis
"But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me."
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"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag."
Zebulon Pike
"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag."
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"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."
William Devane
"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."
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"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
Baltasar Gracian
"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
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"Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time."
Janet Street-Porter
"Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time."
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"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."
Vinton Cerf
"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."
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"I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow."
Neil Schon
"I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow."
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"It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time."
Marc Maron
"It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time."
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"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
Martin Yan
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
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"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."
James Earl Jones
"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."
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"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."
Travis Barker
"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."
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"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
Daniel Boone
"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
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"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
e. e. cummings
"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
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"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me."
Buddy Rich
"I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me."
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"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
Karen Duffy
"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
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"I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them."
Gene Wilder
"I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them."
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"How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema."
Warren Beatty
"How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema."
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"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."
Lenny Bruce
"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."
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"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."
James Earl Jones
"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."
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"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
William Butler Yeats
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
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"Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic."
Andy Dick
"Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic."
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"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
David Attenborough
"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
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"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult."
Catherine Crier
"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult."
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"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time."
Erykah Badu
"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time."
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"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"
Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"
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"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet."
Hedy Lamarr
"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet."
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"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
William Howard Taft
"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
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"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"
Ronald Biggs
"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"
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"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
Roger Bannister
"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
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"I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it."
Mick Jagger
"I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it."
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"But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older."
Jennifer Lopez
"But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older."
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"All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is."
Marcia Gay Harden
"All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is."
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"I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun."
Kristen Bell
"I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun."
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"That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well."
Albert Finney
"That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well."
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"I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself."
Guy Forget
"I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself."
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"Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice."
Ringo Starr
"Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice."
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"It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it."
Alex Van Halen
"It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it."
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"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."
Matt Groening
"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."
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"Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything."
Christina Milian
"Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything."
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"I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them."
Evan Dando
"I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them."
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
Dean Acheson
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
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"Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind."
Jimmy Connors
"Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind."
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"The next time you have a thought... let it go."
Ron White
"The next time you have a thought... let it go."
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"There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us."
Herbert Prochnow
"There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us."
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