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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
- Nov 07, 2020
There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.
- Printing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
- Forging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020