- Love
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have easily said that I don't believe in anything when I came out of the upbringing that I had, but I do still believe that there is something there, and I have a difficult time figuring it out. I suppose I don't want to be thought of as stupid or unintelligent because I believe that there's something out there bigger than us in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
- Quit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020