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Time Quotes


"Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer."


"I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project."



"I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up."



"I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way."



"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."


"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."


"I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving."



"Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks."


"The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time."



"I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having."


"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."


"And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other."


"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."


"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."


"When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody."


"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."


"I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18."


"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"


"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."


"It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991."


"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."



"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."



"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."


"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."


"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time."


"Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed."
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