- Education
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
- Good Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020