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"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
Robert Doisneau
"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
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"Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show."
Mitch Hedberg
"Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show."
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"I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances."
Tiffeny Milbrett
"I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances."
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"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
James Cash Penney
"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
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"The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time."
Guy Johnson
"The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time."
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"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
James Dickey
"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
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"I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it."
Anne Hutchinson
"I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it."
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"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema."
Pedro Almodovar
"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema."
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"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Don DeLillo
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
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"I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing."
Edwin Moses
"I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing."
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
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"I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory."
Brent Scowcroft
"I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory."
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Henry David Thoreau
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
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"If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad."
James Cameron
"If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad."
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"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
George Herbert
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
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"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
Roger Bannister
"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
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"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
Stanley Tucci
"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Marian Wright Edelman
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
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"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."
Courteney Cox
"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."
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"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."
Roger Mudd
"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."
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"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
Linda Evangelista
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
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"You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it."
Warren Buffett
"You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it."
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"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
Anthony Hopkins
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
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"But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time."
Patrick Geddes
"But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time."
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"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
Len G. Murray
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
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"The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog."
David Cronenberg
"The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog."
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"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."
Robert Dale Owen
"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."
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"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."
Winona Ryder
"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."
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"Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works."
Bobby Sherman
"Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works."
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"I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative."
John Warnock
"I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative."
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"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point."
Sean Bean
"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point."
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"I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental."
Kim Gordon
"I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental."
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"We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough."
Harold Ramis
"We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough."
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"I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20."
John Lithgow
"I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20."
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"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
Gene Tierney
"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
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"Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do."
Joe Henderson
"Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do."
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"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
Joni Mitchell
"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
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"I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson."
Rick Schroder
"I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson."
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"Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion."
Larry Holmes
"Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion."
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"Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before."
Paula Radcliffe
"Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before."
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"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."
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"Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive."
James Stockdale
"Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive."
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"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
Joey Dunlop
"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
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"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."
Remy de Gourmont
"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."
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"All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact."
Jim Garrison
"All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact."
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"Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory."
William Law
"Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory."
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"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try."
Charles Kettering
"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try."
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"11 years is a long time in this industry."
Steve McConnell
"11 years is a long time in this industry."
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"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
Ellen Burstyn
"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
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