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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
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- Changing
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You keep learning all the time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
- Entire Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
- Foster Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
- Fiancee
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- Nov 07, 2020