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• Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

  Anne Sexton

  Time, Animal, Listening

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• By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Attitude, Addiction

  "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later". www.tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Home

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Distance, Years, Judging

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Battle

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• I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

  Ridley Scott

  Dad, School, Army

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

  Michel Ocelot

  Believe, Sleep, Up Early

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

  Agyness Deyn

  Grandma, Mean, Sleep

  Interview with David Amsden, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2013.

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• At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Morning, Mean, People

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

  Marques Brownlee

  Race, Apples, Architecture

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

  David McCullough

  Time On Earth, Limits, Reaching

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Buttons, Alarms, Poor

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• Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Land, Three

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...

  William Faulkner

  Boys, July, Years

  "Intruder in the Dust". Book by William Faulkner, 1948.

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• Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Space, Digital

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wise, Reflection, Years

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• Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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• I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

  Howard Stern

  Commitment, Night, Eight

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Age, Way, Digital

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

  Charles Roven

  Thinking, Wind, People

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• Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

  Howard Mansfield

  Years, Four, Moments

  Howard Mansfield (2010). “Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart”, p.218, Down East Books

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• ...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.

  Huston Smith

  Dream, Song, Sleep

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• I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.

  Colin Firth

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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