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Time Quotes


"I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now."


"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."


"Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time."



"The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent."



"I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band."


"I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like."


"On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War."


"The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques."


"Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement."


"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."


"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time."


"I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed."


"I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion."


"Every time you do a project, you learn something new."


"It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well."


"Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time."


"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"



"The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people."


"I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act."



"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."


"Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki."


"At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy."


"And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?"


"We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it."



"My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time."


"He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '"


"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse."


"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."
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