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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

  Eli Wallach

  Want, Slowing, Ifs

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

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• When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.

  Jess C Scott

  Self Esteem, Simple, Emotional

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• Ask yourself to slow down.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Peace, Asks

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

  Steven Lopez

  Spiritual, Long, Done

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• I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

  Thomas McDonell

  Thinking, Acting, Film And Television

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

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

  Jason Mewes

  Toys, Bigs, Collectors

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

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• If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Giving, Finding Happiness

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• Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Pursuit Of Happiness, Pursuit

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Happiness, Long, Needs

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Buddhism, Thinking

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• In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.

  Joe Hockey

  Couple, Moving, Average

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  George Clooney

  Looks, Wrecks, Down And

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

  George Carlin

  Time, Mean, Hands

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• Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

  Mark Strand

  Light, Littles, Poetry Is

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• The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Ideas, Able, Faster

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• The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Mind, Doe, Towns

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• If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Schedules, Ifs, Knows

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Fascination, Looks, Looking Good

  1990 In the NewYork Times, 7 Jan.

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• Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.

  Richard Simmons

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Lying, Impact

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.194, NYU Press

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