Quotes with time-wasting

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  • Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Ann Patchett People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Katharine Whitehorn People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Bob Cousy People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Burning Spear People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Martha Gellhorn People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Barack Obama People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Boy George People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Bill Hybels People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John Wanamaker People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Bodhidharma People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Stephen Hawking People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
    The Guardian (27 september 2005)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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