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Time Quotes



"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time."


"I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine."


"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting."



"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."


"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."



"Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time."


"But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time."


"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart."


"Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq."


"I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline."


"Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never."


"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
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"I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register."
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"We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights."



"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."


"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."



"You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States."


"You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in."


"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."


"It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step."



"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."



"I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time."


"We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation."


"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."


"I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time."
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