"The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you."
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"I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar."
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"MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery."
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"There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!"
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"There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying."
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"The beauty of TV is that it does not have to be live. In this case, rather than spending an hour or two hours staring at a door and waiting for somebody to come out, we can just tell you after it has happened."
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"One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite."
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"My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves."
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"I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life."
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"Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."
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"The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work."
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"Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand."
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"Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions."
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"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin."
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"We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us."
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"Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces."
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"He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again."
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"There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body. But other times I can't wait to actually be 30, just so I can say things like, "I'm 30. I don't have time for that. F - k off!""
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"No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting."
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"No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait."
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