Quotes with time-conscious

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  • Ali Smith I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
    Girl Meets Boy (2007) 140
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Bruce Sterling I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brock Lesnar I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Abraham Pais I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
    Lighthousekeeping (2006) 186
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bryan Singer I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Burgess Owens I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Oscar Wilde I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Frank I live in a crazy time.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Agatha Christie I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Joyce Cary I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Alan Dundes I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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