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"At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject."



"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time."


"In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list."


"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little."


"I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do."


"Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of."


"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."


"You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time."


"No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?"


"I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time."


"I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted."


"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."


"I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia."


"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."



"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."



"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."


"If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization."


"We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack."


"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."



"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."



"Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created."


"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
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"The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God."


"It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy."


"Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming."


"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."



"And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England."


"I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue."
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