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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Having A Good Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have vivid memories of junior high school. I didn't quite know how to deal with kids and make friends and all of that. If you talked to people who knew me at the time, they'd think I was a popular kid in school. But boy, I didn't feel that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.
- Country Singer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.
- Completeness
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- Nov 07, 2020