Quotes with past-time

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  • Auberon Herbert I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • H.G. Wells I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I want to raise every voice
    At least I got to try
    Every time I think about it
    Water rises to my eyes
    Situation desperate
    Echoes of the victims cry
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    Some son of a bitch would die
    Source: Stealing Fire (1984) If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Track 8
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Davison I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Alan Bennett I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Allan Carr I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bubba Watson I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
    J. R. Tolkien
     
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  • Anne Perry I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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