Only Time Quotes - Page 20

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Gun, Self, Defense

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.71, Penguin

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• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Dad, Boys

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

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• I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

  Robert Powell

  Dark, Love Is, People

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• The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

  China Chow

  Airplane, Praying, Ambulance

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• Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

  Marla Gibbs

  Fighting, Yesterday, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

  Michael Chang

  Mom, Play, Competition

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• What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage and you talk about how much you despise the children and what you would like to do to them on an airplane? That's the only time I would gladly take a terrorist on. It'd be worth it to get rid of these children.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Airplane, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

  Regis Philbin

  War, Coffee, Army

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• The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

  Amy Hempel

  Baby, Men, Scare

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.

  Laila Ali

  Sports, Jobs, Stars

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Sick, Laughing

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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