"As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'"
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"Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch."
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"If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas."
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"As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it."
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"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman."
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"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house."
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"Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us."
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"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger."
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"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
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"Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch."
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"Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all."
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"Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film."
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"Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
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"You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history."
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"Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do."
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"You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away."
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"I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring."
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"Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines."
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