My Time Quotes - Page 37

• I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Reading, People, Accomplishment

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• I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, People, Loner

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• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  Nancy Grace

  Gratitude, Heart, Special

  "After 10 years, Nancy Grace to leave Court TV". www.today.com. May 9, 2007.

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• I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

  Amy Grant

  Years, Waiting, Studios

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• Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rhythm, Percent, Guitarist

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• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Movie, Thinking

  "The Cast Of ‘Larry Crowne’ Weighs In On Tom Hanks & This Summer’s Anti-Tentpole" by Leah Zak, www.indiewire.com. June 28, 2011.

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• My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Running, Party, Heart

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• I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Feelings

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Reading, Antiques

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

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• I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Sorry, War

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Acting, Actors

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• I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Hiking, People

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• I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

  Jesse Jackson

  Talking, Wasting My Time, Candidates

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• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  Naveen Jain

  Successful, Moon, Skills

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• My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.

  LeBron James

  Games, Needs, Balls

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• I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

  Franz Kafka

  Want, Advertising, Advertisements

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• I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

  Elia Kazan

  Nice, People, Guy

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.7, Knopf

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• When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Morning, Rain

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  When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Want, Waste, Wasting My Time

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• Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Puppets, Analysis, Emotion

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

  Frank Lampard

  Character, Player, Benches

  "Chelsea's Frank Lampard expects to be a free agent in the summer" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

  Jessica Lange

  Photography, Blessing, Filled

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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