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"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

Robert Half, American Businessman

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"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."

"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."

Julie Christie, British Actress

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"I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it."

"I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it."

Jerry Hall, American Model

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"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again."

"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again."

Don Adams, American Comedian

Time, Wife, Church

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"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."

"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

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"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."

Carly Simon, American Musician

Time, Truth, Connection

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"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time."

"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time."

Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician

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"I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids."

"I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids."

Ashley Judd, American Actress

Time, Marriage, Kids

41

"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans."

"The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans."

Bob Cousy, American Athlete

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"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6."

"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6."

Loretta Young, American Actress

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"Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world."

"Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world."

Sydney Brenner, British Scientist

Time, Living, World

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"In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."

"In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

Time, Being, Care, Fact

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"My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far."

"My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far."

Picabo Street, American Athlete

Time, Strength, Years

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"I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time."

"I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time."

Sarah Brightman, English Musician

Time, Wife, Compromise, Wives

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"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that."

"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that."

Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakian Athlete

Time, Habit, Kids, Tennis

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"When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars."

"When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

Time, Friends, Harvest, Help

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"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."

"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."

Lara St. John, Canadian Musician

Time, Life, Rest

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"Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock."

"Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock."

Phil Collins, English Musician

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"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."

Arturo Toscanini, Italian Musician

Time, Day, First

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"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."

"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."

Sylvester Stallone, American Actor

Time, Challenge, Sense, Weight

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"I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'"

"I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'"

Peter Lynch, American Businessman

Time, Future, Reading, Will

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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

Time, First, Rome, Slavery

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"Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity."

"Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity."

Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

Time, Eternity, Shadow, World

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"I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have."

"I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have."

David Naughton, American Actor

Time, Actors, Energy, Play

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"The sun has not yet set for all time."

"The sun has not yet set for all time."

Titus Livius, Roman Historian

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"When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered."

"When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered."

Marguerite Gardiner, Irish Writer

Time, Affection, Doubt

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"I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!"

"I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!"

George Duke, American Musician

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"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."

"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."

Stephen Sondheim, American Composer

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"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."

"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."

Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman

Time, Actions, Now, Opinion

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"Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'"

"Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'"

Conan O'Brien, American Entertainer

Time, Yesterday

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"The only thing an adult can give a child is time."

"The only thing an adult can give a child is time."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists."

"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists."

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary

Time, American, First, Meeting

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"Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill."

"Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill."

Vince Gill, American Musician

Time, Companionship, Day, Rest

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"That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues."

"That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

Time, Party, Talk

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"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time."

"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Time, Ability, Chess, Learning

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"At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy."

"At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy."

Etta James, American Musician

Time, Achievement, Being

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"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved."

"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved."

Bill Bradley, American Politician

Time, Environment, Mountains, Quiet

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"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."

Brian Tracy, American Author

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"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."

"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."

Willie Mays, American Athlete

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"I am having a good time doing nothing."

"I am having a good time doing nothing."

Phylicia Rashad, American Actress

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"We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe."

"We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe."

William Henry Hudson, British Author

Time, Senses, Years

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"This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time."

"This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time."

Frances E. Willard, American Activist

Time, Progress, Law

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"'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens."

"'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens."

Phil Collins, English Musician

Time, Road, Songs

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"We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson."

"We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson."

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

Time, Sound, Will

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"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"

"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"

Susie Bright, American Writer

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"Time is the devourer of all things."

"Time is the devourer of all things."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time."

"What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time."

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

Time, Quality, Immortality, Want

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"The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not."

"The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not."

Larry Dixon, American Politician

Time, Goal, Will

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"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."

"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."

Ruth Brown, American Musician

Time, Holiday, Trying, Voice

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