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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people all the time like, man, when you a kid, you don't know you're in the hood, or you don't know you poor. You just accepting your environment when you a child, and that's when your friends are really your friends, wholeheartedly and nothing malicious.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always said to my wife, 'That's for sissies. Girls get facials.' The first time I tried it I said, 'Oh man, what the hell have I been missing all these years.' Let me tell you, I go in there for about an hour and a half, and the girl does my facial and also massages my neck and my arms.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020