"I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity."
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"I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me."
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"Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back."
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"We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free."
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"Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money."
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"The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around."
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"While we wait for life, life passes"
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"If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!"
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"Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?"
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"We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them."
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"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."
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"Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form."
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"If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide."
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"Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall."
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"Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind."
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"I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end."
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"You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody."
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"Meditation is waiting on God."
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"I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts."
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"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."
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