- Purpose
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
- Elektra
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
- Nov 07, 2020
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020