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Time Quotes
"For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then."
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"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."
46
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
46
"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
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"So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore."
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"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
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"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
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"Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs."
46
"The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago."
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"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself."
46
"I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time."
Time,
46
"Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve."
46
"I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story."
Time,
46
"People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things."
46
"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
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"The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we're moving when we actually have no intent of doing so."
46
"The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output."
Time,
46
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
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"It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives."
46
"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."
46
"Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds."
46
"A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag."
45
"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."
Time,
45
"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."
45
"I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me."
Time,
45
"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
45
"To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You'll be way too late."
45
"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man."
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"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
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