Quotes with time-scale

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  • Barry White As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Denis Waitley As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Gore Vidal As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
    Source: Platitudes in the Making (1911) p. 13
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Evans As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time.
    Source: Kind of blue liner notes
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carol Gilligan At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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