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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

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• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Character
  • Cold
  • Late

• Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Start
  • Old
  • Late

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Lazy
  • Late
  • Late-bloomer

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• It gets late early out there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Early
  • Late
  • Out

• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Way
  • Late
  • Push

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Me
  • Star
  • Late

• I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Remember
  • Think

• The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • News
  • Hear
  • Late

• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Late

• If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Late
  • Slow

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Government
  • Late
  • November

• I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • To Be
  • Late
  • On Time

• I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • God
  • Judging
  • Possess

• How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Liberate
  • Lowers

• Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions... and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • Freedom
  • Artist
  • Expression

• When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Normal
  • France
  • United

• Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

  

  Lewis Carroll
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