Lifetime Quotes - Page 35

• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions". entertainment.slashdot.org. April 15, 2013.

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• Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Idols, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

  James Taylor

  Awards, Achievement, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Differences, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Waiting, Challenges, Rewards

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, People, Goal

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• I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

  Tim Vine

  Holiday, Once In A Lifetime

  "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". The Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. July, 2012.

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• I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

  James D. Watson

  Would Be, My Own, Genome

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• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Max Weber

  Accomplishment, Today, Conscious

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• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

  Andrew Weil

  Real, Kids, Healthy

  "Are You An Adult Picky Eater?". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Leader, United States

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• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

  Paul Wellstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Regret, Inarticulate

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics

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• My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

  Betty White

  Mother, Dad, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

  Betty White

  Years, Track, Pet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Heartbreak, Dog

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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  A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  Ted Williams

  Inspirational, Baseball, Men

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Drama, Fall

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Watergate

  "Deja vu all over again". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 15, 2013.

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• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens

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• As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

  Romola Garai

  Kids, Past, Used

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• I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

  Romola Garai

  Careers, Acting, Achieve

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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