- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.
- Fonda
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a good time in bands, and when I wasn't having a good time, I left.
- Good Record
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
- Entertainment Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020