- Look
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I came on the pitch the first time after a long time where I was not selected. It was a great reception; I remember that so well.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
- Exhausted
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020