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- Nov 07, 2020
Day Quotes
Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.
These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.
- Drank
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first met my husband on the day we got married, when I was 20. I moved to be with him in Leeds, 165 miles from Luton. The kitchen was absolutely tiny. But I got my first hand-held mixer and first set of scales and first blue cake tin from Tesco and that was very exciting.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you’ve had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it’s gone, every moment every day is about the next one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a dream of mine since I was a young boy. Even back then, I had decided that one day I would play in the Champions League.
- Great Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
- Dominant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be dominant from day one.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Apocalyptic Love,' that is pretty from the hip in the sense that, one day, Slash and I were talking - I think it was Slash and I - about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar and all that crazy stuff.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the greatest and last major crisis before 1836, the panic of 1819 holds considerable interest for the study of business cycles and for the present day. It was an economy in transition, as it were, to a state where business cycles as we know them would develop.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020