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Time Quotes


"It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it."
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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
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"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."


"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent."


"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."


"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."


"We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN."


"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."


"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
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"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."


"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."


"I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time."
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"When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time."


"I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever."
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"I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak."


"The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'"


"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."


"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time."


"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily."


"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S."



"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."


"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
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"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."


"I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask."


"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."


"It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya."


"I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time."


"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."


"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."


"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler."
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