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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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• I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Believe, Taken, Joy

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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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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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• Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Tools, Uptight

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

  Alan Lightman

  Running, Teaching, Organization

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

  Megyn Kelly

  Baby, Men, Should Have

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• Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

  Cofer Black

  Stress, Organization, Trying

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• I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

  Pete Best

  Daughter, Two, Wife

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• What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

  David Rubenstein

  People, Community, Wish

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• I want to spend more time with my family.

  Kenny Chesney

  Want, My Family

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• When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Desperate Situations, People, Broken

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• I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Consuming, Findings

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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