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• Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Forever, Flying

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• How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Moon, Twenties, Watches

  Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

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• As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

  Henry Cuellar

  Focus, Reelection, Want

  "Another Dem to skip convention" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

  Shannon Lee

  Needs, World, Fluid

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• My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.

  Gore Verbinski

  Mean, Thinking, Pirate

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

  Sergio Aragones

  Thinking, Drawing, Way

  "Ask Sergio". sergioaragones.com.

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• Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Reading, Thinking, President

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• Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Weekend, Player

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

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• The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

  Guy Finley

  Considering, Persons, Shortcomings

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 28, 2014

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• It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  People, May, Medical

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mom, Hands, Way

  "Jesmyn Ward: 'I wanted to write about the people of the south'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.

  John Huston

  Children, Wine, Pneumonia

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• It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sight, People, Favors

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.127

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• It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

  Matt Groening

  Parent, Tvs, Hard

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• When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

  James Bryce

  Book, Waste, Poor

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• I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

  Jimmy Connors

  Law, Tennis, Teeth

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• I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Effort, Healthy, Mind

  "Face it: O'Hara is worth your 'Consideration'". www.today.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

  David Chase

  Lying, Talking, Imagine

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Balls, Want, Littles

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Golf, Years, Lasts

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• Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Space, Trying

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• I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

  Nido R Qubein

  Wish, Fund

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• I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

  Jilly Cooper

  Missing

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• This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Believe, Grateful

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