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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
- Mark Romanek
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There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
- Eric Zorn
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In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.
- Steve Hilton
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A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.
- Amul Thapar
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The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.
- Steven Van Zandt
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Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.
- Max Scherzer
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
- Betty Smith
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I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
- Pete Burns
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
- Ralph G. Neas
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I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.
- Max Winkler
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Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.
- Russell Westbrook
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What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.
- Corey Hawkins
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I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
- Libby Trickett
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
- Ben Folds
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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
- Wilson Mizner
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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.
- Douglas Rushkoff
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When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.
- Harry Shum, Jr.
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I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
- Jan Karon
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My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.
- David H. Murdock
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'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.
- Tom Shales
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Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'
- Lia Ices
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Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.
- Jeff Giles
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I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.
- Wendy Whelan
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
- Hannah Ware
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
- Dave Winfield
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I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.
- Shaggy
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The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
- Max von Sydow
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I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!
- Twinkle Khanna
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My only aim is to clock a time that everyone remembers.
- Hima Das
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Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.
- Lee DeWyze
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Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
- Jay Griffiths
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A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock.
- Peter Bergen
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There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!
- Monica Johnson
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In the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes. It will be on a daytime magazine programme and we will each wear a tasteful shirt and slacks combination. We'll be interviewed by a soothing voice under a clock that's permanently set to 4pm. We will talk about the weather. We will record for months to get 15 minutes they can use in the edit.
- Frankie Boyle
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
- J. J. Abrams
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.
- Joe Scarborough
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If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.
- Stacey D'Erasmo
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When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.
- John Dickerson
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
- Abdullah Ibrahim
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I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.
- Asafa Powell
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I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
- Bennett Miller
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Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
- Al Gore
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You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a career and say, 'I wish I had done this a bit differently.'
- Pam Shriver
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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
- Felix Dennis
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
- Earl Weaver
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I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.
- Tyler Herro
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The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
- Paul Pierce
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Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
- Charles Krauthammer
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
- Patrick MacGill
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I went to school in a place called Dunfermline, which is in Fife - it's like the middle of Scotland - so I didn't have sprawling lawns of green and high school bomber jackets and an amazing clock tower.
- Ncuti Gatwa
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There are times when you sit down, and you're just like, 'Man, I don't know if I can do it right now.' Take a second - go to the woods and just hang out, or go to Yosemite and check it out. Be in nature for a little while; clock out - which is super healthy, especially for creative types. Honestly, for everyone. Everyone needs that at times.
- Ross Lynch
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Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.
- Alexandra Adornetto
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I have played international games two days after travelling around the world. Your body clock is all over the place, and you are waking up at 4 AM. But once a game starts, then your adrenalin kicks in, and you seem to forget the tiredness.
- Diego Forlan
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I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.
- Esther McVey
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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
- Rob Sheffield
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When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
- Don Cornelius
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It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
- Yolanda Hadid
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I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.
- Alan Arkin
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I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don't think I will, because I am too fussy - my biological clock means that it will be too late.
- Julia Sawalha
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
- Jerry Garcia
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Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
- Kim Fields
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I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
- Grandmaster Flash
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I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
- Alec Baldwin
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We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
- Jeremy Piven
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You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
- Brendan I. Koerner
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President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.
- Wayne LaPierre
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On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'
- Brad Hall
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
- Ban Ki-moon
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To understand the current state of mind of both Sara Paretsky and her private detective alter ego, one must first roll back the clock to 1982, when Victoria Iphegenia Warshawski took her first investigative bow in 'Indemnity Only.'
- Sarah Weinman
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What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
- Goldie Hawn
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If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.
- Matthew Walker
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When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.
- Bonnie Blair
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There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.
- Bonnie Blair
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Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
- Ben Shapiro
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As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.
- Peter Morgan
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I was shooting for two Balaji shows, Kayamath' and Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil,' in Mumbai. I was tired working round the clock.
- Madhura Naik
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You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
- Peter Shilton
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The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
- America Ferrera
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The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.
- Summer Sanders
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We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.
- Robert Mueller
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You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
- Drew Houston
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What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
- Brian Selznick
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Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
- Luke Wilson
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If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.
- Donovan Bailey
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
- Benicio Del Toro
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Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.
- Sayed Kashua
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
- Padgett Powell
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Whenever I go to the gym with my trainer, we always wind time down while each of us is getting up shots, like at the end of the clock.
- Terry Rozier
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I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.
- James May
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I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.
- Markus Persson
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Frittatas are delicious, convenient, and can even be eaten cold - perfect if you're working against the clock to make your morning meeting.
- James Haskell
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
- Dan Coats
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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
- Georg Buchner
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My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
- Jack Ramsay
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The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
- Tom Coughlin
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
- Victor Hugo
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The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
- Richard Dawkins
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
- Thomas Sowell
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
- Ernest Hemingway
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