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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Fur

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.

  Mark Hamill

  Eye, Cutting, Years

  "Mark Hamill Makes ‘Biggest Gamble of Career’ with ‘Sushi Girl’". Interview with David Onda, my.xfinity.com. December 6, 2012.

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• You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

  Jordan Knight

  Knowing, Everyday, You Only Live Once

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• The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

  John Coltrane

  Play, Trying, Sound

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• There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

  Wayne Dyer

  Important, Purpose, Affair

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• Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

  Rumi

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Pleasure

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

  Richard MacDonald

  Pieces, Driven, Studios

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• The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Animal, Law

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• Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Care, Limits

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, People, Want

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• I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.

  Mark Edward

  Real, Arrows, Goal

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• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  Paloma Faith

  Silly, People, Records

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• I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.

  George Carlin

  August, Hours, Fine

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• Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Needs, Time Travel, Conventions

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• Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

  Dick Taylor

  Errors, Battle, Events

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• The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works”

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• Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Mother, Brother, Home

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• It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
  It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Race, Important

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

  Mencius

  Evil, Negative, Goodness

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Action, Justified, Humans

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

  Luke Perry

  School, Gun, Fake

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

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