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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Watches

"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
Watches

"With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Watches

"It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever."

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Steven Wright Comedian
Watches

"I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me."

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Seth Green Actor
Watches

"Entertainment is all about helping people feel things that they might not have access to normally. They watch something and it makes them feel something, and that makes them reflective about their own life, you know?"

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
Watches

"If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
Watches

"But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress."

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Graham Taylor Football Manager
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"I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person."

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