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"His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds."
Alexander McCall Smith
"His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds."
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"A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time."
Maya Lin
"A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time."
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"Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it."
Susan Sullivan
"Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it."
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"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
Wentworth Miller
"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
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"Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time."
James Cash Penney
"Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time."
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"Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time"."
Bo Bennett
"Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time"."
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"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."
Edgar Watson Howe
"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."
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"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
Louise Fletcher
"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
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"The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations."
Auliq Ice
"The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations."
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"I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy."
Lisa Loeb
"I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy."
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"I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film."
Anjelica Huston
"I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film."
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"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."
Aldrich Ames
"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."
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"If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time."
Toba Beta
"If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time."
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"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
Tupac Shakur
"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
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"And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability."
Julian Barnes
"And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability."
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"Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening."
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening."
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"The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains."
Marcel Proust
"The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains."
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"I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop."
Paul Westerberg
"I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop."
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"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
Jacques Ellul
"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
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"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."
Boris Becker
"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."
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"I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me."
Lauren Bush
"I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me."
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"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."
Andy Partridge
"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."
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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
Luigi Pirandello
"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
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"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly."
Ivan Turgenev
"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly."
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"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."
Whoopi Goldberg
"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."
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"Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man."
Kim Campbell
"Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man."
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"Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors."
Peter Tork
"Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors."
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"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue."
Sherwood Boehlert
"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue."
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"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
Karen Kain
"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
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"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."
Lena Horne
"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."
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"There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer."
Rick Derringer
"There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer."
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"After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world."
Maureen Forrester
"After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world."
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"In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options."
John Hull
"In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options."
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"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."
Matt Dillon
"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."
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"If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self."
Lydia Lunch
"If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self."
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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
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"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."
Sarah McLachlan
"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."
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"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
Sonny Rollins
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
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"I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time."
Patrick Stewart
"I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time."
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"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
Shirley Chisholm
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
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"I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?"
Margot Kidder
"I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?"
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"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
Thomas Szasz
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
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"The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time."
Lauren Ambrose
"The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time."
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"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
Oriana Fallaci
"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
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"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."
Wynton Marsalis
"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."
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"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Beth Gibbons
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
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"It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people."
Sheryl Lee
"It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people."
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"They are not long, the days of wine and roses."
Ernest Dowson
"They are not long, the days of wine and roses."
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"Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor."
Sara Gilbert
"Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor."
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"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."
Elvis Presley
"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."
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