One Time Quotes - Page 5

• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Years, Care

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

  Donald Johanson

  Lost Friendship, Close Friends, Difficult

  "The Quest for Human Origins". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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

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• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  Artist, People, Needs

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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Paris

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• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Guy, Embarrassed

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

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• Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

  Crystal Gayle

  Fun, Thinking, Surfing

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• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

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• His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Butterfly, Wings, Dust

  A Moveable Feast "Scott Fitzgerald" (1964)

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• A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Decision, Doe

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• My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

  Larry David

  Wish, Cases, Changed

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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

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• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Time, Mistake

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

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• And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

  Enrique Iglesias

  People, Asking, Kind

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• I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

  Michael Jackson

  Play, America, Car

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• I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Actresses, Goodness

  "Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I never had a big game plan'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

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• At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Doors, Ideas

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• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Larks, Television

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

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• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Orchestra, Shampoo

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Gene Wilder

  Believe, Names, Devil

  "An Interview with Gene Wilder on a Career in Comedy and the First Person He Tried to Make Laugh: His Mother". Interview with Brian Braiker, www.newsweek.com. March 17, 2005.

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• I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Death, Dying

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.414, Wordsworth Editions

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