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Time Quotes



"You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'."



"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."


"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."


"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."


"Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am."


"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time."


"I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living."



"I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time."


"We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth."


"I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that."



"Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs."


"One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them."


"And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill."


"What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic."


"One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show."


"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."


"We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger."


"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."


"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."


"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."


"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."


"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."


"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household."


"I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time."
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"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."
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"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."


"Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence."


"The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste."
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