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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
- American Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing is to not look at fitness as something that you do at a prescribed time of day in a prescribed room and a prescribed building. You should incorporate physical activity throughout your day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are 168 hours in a week, and even if you're working out two, three, four, or five times a week for an hour, you're still not working out at least 95 to 98 percent of the week. So it's what you do during that time that's far more impactful than what you do in the gym.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020