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• I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

  Chazz Palminteri

  People, Firsts, Chance

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• No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
  I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
  suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
  I'm as determined as them old timers.

  Eminem

  Beach, Sex, Cutting

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• I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.

  Dane Cook

  Powerful, Taken, Cells

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• I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

  Joan Rivers

  Alarms, Use, Smoke

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• You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

  Barry Harris

  Play, Reason Why, Jazz

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• Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

  Kirby Wright

  Memories, Self, Safety

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• I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

  Mike Patton

  Jobs, Real, People

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

  Hugh Hefner

  Magic, Mind, Age

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Stars, Quality, Alive

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• It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

  Jancee Dunn

  Retirement, Jobs, Grandmother

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• And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

  Duane G. Carey

  Working Together, Needs, Done

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• Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

  Tom Hollander

  Kids, Men, Eggs

  "Tom Hollander on why Rev is his proudest achievement". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Long, Management

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• People that never had a part-time job in their lives, people that have worked for a company 20 and 30 years are now working for the same company as a part-timer because of "Obama care," because of the basic advantages to doing that in terms of "Obama care" for an employer.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

  Richard Engel

  Fire, Race, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

  Tom Courtenay

  Boys, Play, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Summer, School, Vacation

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

  Herb Alpert

  Couple, Feel Good, Might

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• All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

  Colleen Hoover

  Might, Limits, Reason

  "Hopeless". Book by Colleen Hoover, 2012.

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• An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

  David Greenberg

  Children, Taken, Naughty

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• Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

  Shannon Lee

  Needs, World, Fluid

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• The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

  Mary Douglas

  Strong, Wall, Black And White

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• I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

  Randy Savage

  Hate, Torches, Praise

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Lunch

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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