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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."

"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, Canadian Musician

Time, Career, World, Years

41

"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."

"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, American Economist

Time, Interest, Options

41

"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."

"I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry."

Matt Dillon, American Actor

Time, Hearing, Voice, Worry

41

"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."

"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, American Musician

Time, Quality, People, Pleasure

41

"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."

"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, American Artist

Time, People, Want, World

41

"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."

"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."

Sarah McLachlan, Canadian Musician

Time, Opinion, Song, Songs

41

"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."

"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, American Musician

Time, Being, Jazz, Musicians

41

"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."

"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, English Actor

Time, Being, Hollywood, Luck

41

"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."

"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, American Politician

Time, Idea, Congress, Extreme

41

"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?"

"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, American Actress

Time, Flying, Fun, Windows

41

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

41

"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."

"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, American Actress

Time, Experience, Idea, Fun

41

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

41

"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."

"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, American Musician

Time, Country, Today

41

"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."

"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, English Musician

41

"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."

"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, American Actor

Time, People, Bed, Clothes

41

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses."

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses."

Ernest Dowson, English Poet

Time, Roses, Wine

41

"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."

"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, American Actress

Time, Sister, Brother, Actor

41

"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."

"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

41

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

41

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

Time, Children, Garden, Opinion

41

"I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child."

"I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child."

Koichi Tanaka, Japanese Scientist

Time, Building, Electricity, Engineering

41

"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."

"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."

Cesar Romero, American Actor

Time, Technology, War, Fun

41

"My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple."

"My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple."

Kim Hunter, American Actress

41

"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."

"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."

Brian Lumley, English Writer

Time, American, Class, Fiction

41

"Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar."

"Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

41

"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."

"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

Time, God, Earth, Eternity

41

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well."

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

Time, People, Children, Old

41

"As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map."

"As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map."

Edward Witten, American Mathematician

41

"I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself."

"I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself."

Trish Stratus, American Entertainer

Time, Being, Career, Crowds

41

"It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with."

"It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with."

James Cameron, American Director

Time, Act, Actors

41

"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

Mose Allison, American Musician

41

"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."

"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."

Billie Jean King, American Athlete

41

"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."

"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

Time, People, Knowledge, Clouds

41

"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."

"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."

Carol Burnett, American Actress

Time, Celebrity, Will

41

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."

Edward de Bono, English Psychologist

Time, Ideas, Right

41

"I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now."

"I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now."

Jody Watley, American Musician

Time, People, Artists, Now

41

"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."

"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Time, People, Giving, Media

41

"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."

"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."

Alvin Lee, English Musician

Time, First, Will

41

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

41

"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."

"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."

Dennis Farina, American Actor

Time, Business, Entertainment, Nothing

41

"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Time, Popularity, Will

41

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."

William Dean Howells, American Author

Time, Interest, Space

41

"Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill."

"Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill."

Murray Walker, English Entertainer

Time, Will, Years

41

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense."

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense."

Brad Pitt, American Actor

Time, Evening, Extreme, Poverty

41

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

41

"My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave."

"My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave."

Paul Robeson, American Actor

Time, Mother, Father, State

41

"After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take."

"After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take."

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American Musician

Time, First, Right

41

"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."

"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

41

"Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed."

"Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

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