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Time Quotes


"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle."


"A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."


"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it."


"Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries."


"My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me."



"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."


"I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it."


"Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places."


"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."


"I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem."


"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin."


"How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer."



"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."



"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time."



"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes."


"I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise."


"While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana."


"The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love."



"The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway."


"I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent."



"Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow."


"We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team."



"Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market."
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"Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time."


"When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room."



"What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities."


"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."


"Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price."
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