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• Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

  Goldie Hawn

  Age, No Turning Back, Dies

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• It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.

  Robin Williams

  Morning, Dumpsters, Five

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• Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Morning, Humor

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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• It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

  George Will

  Baseball, Ties, Progression

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• For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

  Joe Scarborough

  Eight, Years, Bills

  "Scarborough Asks Maher How to End 'Mutually Assured Destruction' of President-Bashing". www.newsbusters.org. January 2, 2010.

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• Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Morning, Lying, Winter

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• I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

  Martin Freeman

  Simple, Alarms, Alarm Clocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

  Tom Baker

  Beautiful, Past, Doctors

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• For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

  Marcia Cross

  Falling In Love, Children, Crazy

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• Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Baby, Father, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...

  David McCullough

  Dream, Hard Work, Character

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

  Glen Hansard

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• We’ve seen with this president, experience matters. When that phone call comes at three o’clock in the morning, I will be up and ready for the call because I will know what’s going on in the world around us.

  Rick Santorum

  Morning, Phones, President

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• You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

  Dave Attell

  Alarms, Tongue, Ass

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• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  Jackie Cooper

  Morning, Home, Night

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• Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Years, Worry, Worried

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• It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'

  Billy Joel

  Sweet, Memories, Son

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight.

  Groucho Marx

  Eight, Alarms, Opera

  "Fictional character: Otis B. Driftwood". "A Night at the Opera", www.imdb.com. Npvember 1, 1935.

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• This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Dog, Men

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.

  Mary Ruefle

  Children, Humanity, Pieces

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• On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species of fish; in Maine they are usually small herring. Fish are penned in nets until the boats are ready to load. The fish are taken a short distance to canneries which work round the clock, according to the time of the catch.

  Luis Marden

  Distance, Taken, Dawn

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• When the tea is brought at five o'clock
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
  The little black cat with bright green eyes
  Is suddenly purring there.

  Harold Monro

  Cat, Eye, Poetry

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Games, Two

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

  Wallace Stegner

  Past

  Wallace Stegner (1971). “Angle of Repose”, Penguin Group USA

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• In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

  Twyla Tharp

  World, Desperate, Profit

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