My Time Quotes - Page 7

• I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

  Jill Scott

  Fighting, Done, Want

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• I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

  Maria Sharapova

  World, Lockers, Rooms

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• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Buying, Laundry

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

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• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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

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• I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

  Robert Smith

  Sky, Listening, Houston

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• When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Different, Bob

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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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• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  Taylor Swift

  Would Be, Roles, Stories

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• I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

  Serj Tankian

  Musician, Want, Satisfaction

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reader, Known

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

  Twyla Tharp

  Impact, Years, Fit

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Fasting

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

  Mike Tyson

  Vegas, Mike, Dues

  "'I ain't the same person I was'". www.espn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  M. Ward

  Watches, Want, Tvs

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• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, African American, Television

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  Jessamyn West

  Success, Men, Soul

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

  Erlend Loe

  Nice, Mean, Feel Better

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Kissing, Trouble

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.

  Sam Walton

  Opportunity, Ideas, Listening

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.293, Bantam

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Athlete, Swimming

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• Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.

  Richard M. Weiner

  Sex, Regret, Past

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• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

  William E. Gladstone

  Bible, Men, Followers

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