Quotes with cross-time

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  • Beyonce Knowles When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Camilla Belle When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bryan Batt When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Walt Whitman When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Ben Harper When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Bob Knight When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Demick When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Edward F. Benson When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
    Edward F. Benson
    English writer and archaeologist (1867 - 1940)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Ralph W. Sockman When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''
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  • Harold J. Seymour When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - to the end at all costs.
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