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• I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age

  Kirsten Dunst

  Growing Up, Thinking, Age

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• I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Wish, Different

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• The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Cat, Government, Different

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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• I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

  George Best

  Different, Done, Funny Soccer

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• With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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• I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

  Amy Grant

  Eye, Talking, Different

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• I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

  Geri Halliwell

  Different, Shapes, Size

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• I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Self, Insecurity, Different

  "RT Interview: Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 22, 2008.

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• To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Different, Finals

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  Zadie Smith

  White, Teeth, Different

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• I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

  Rick Springfield

  Different, Way, Inspired

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• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  Patrick Stewart

  Bridges, Two, Different

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• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Parent, Different, Might

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• Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Father, Order

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• Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Smell, Color

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.384, Library of America

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• "They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Eye, Different

  "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2006.

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• Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Funeral, Singing

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• So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener, that this time in my life would soon be a thing of the past. I felt as if I could understand a little of what my mother had been through, and the feelings she may have had at different times. I wasn't a child anymore, and this made me feel awfully lonesome, and utterly alone.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mother, Fun, Regret

  Banana Yoshimoto (1995). “N.P.: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Eye, Magic

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• I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Two, People, Different

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.119, Random House

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• We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Numbers, Grandparent

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

  Diane Ackerman

  Beautiful, Two, Different

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.48, Vintage

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• If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.

  Anne Stuart

  Making Love, Bed, Different

  Anne Stuart (2012). “Black Ice”, p.307, Harlequin

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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