"The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money."
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"Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future."
"The only time not wasted is wasted time."
"The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards."
"Only times and places, only names and ghosts."
"The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness."
"I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go."
"L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something."
"Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time."