Period Quotes
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I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
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We want to undersell and overdeliver. We hopefully would be ensuring another period of sustained success.
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I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
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As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.
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During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.
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When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
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We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
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I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
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Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.
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I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
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Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.
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The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
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He was challenged after the first period, whether it was internally or externally, he was challenged. And he rose up to that challenge. I think that's important for any player.
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I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
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I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
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I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
