- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
- Bootleg
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, like, a minute sample time. I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job. I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.
- Disillusioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to fight Joshua. We've got history: this would be the third time. He's won one, I've won one. This would be the decider.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020