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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.K.'s relationship with the U.S. has proved strong enough over time to bear the weight of honest disagreement. It does not require unconditional support where our interests or judgements differ.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020