- Pretty
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
- Gamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the beginning of time, we have expected our leaders to be supermen, unlike mere mortals. We want them to be much greater than us so that we can look up to them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years.
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020