- Me
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was blessed and lucky to have been given opportunity. I really thank my dad, Joe Ben Hudgens, for taking his time and adopting this kid from the Philippines, and gave him his future, and opportunities. Without him, I wouldn't be here.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
- Per
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020