- Long Time
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- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
- Bike
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020