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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
- Entirety
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm going through something really difficult, I think it's what made me go to the piano for the first time when I was a child. I look at it as a place to pray.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen. I never got into any of his other music, but that song, to this day, is in my top three lyrical masterpieces of all time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
With songs, it doesn't matter what song it is; every time I go out and perform it, it's like the first time I'm performing it, the first time I wrote it. If it's not, then I'm not going to do it that night.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess it's about getting older. I know that I'm going to lose people that I love - I'm going to die myself - so everything seems to be getting somehow sweet and more important and more special and more humbling and more challenging and more terrifying all at the same time.
- Good Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever had to choose between having a good mind and good health with having big success, then there's no contest: I'd put my health first every time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020