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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, World

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

  Alan Lightman

  Technology, Thinking, Reflection

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• What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.

  Yvor Winters

  New Experiences, Feelings, Understanding

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• The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Get Better

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• Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

  Larry Wall

  Running, Thinking, Should

  Usenet article, 1998.

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• Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Thinking, America, Erosion

  "Americans need to discover how the world sees them" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.

  Peter Greenaway

  Running, Journey, Men

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Wheel Of Time, Reason

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Evil news fly faster still than good.

  Thomas Kyd

  Evil, News, Stills

  Thomas Kyd, David Bevington (1996). “The Spanish Tragedy”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

  Jaron Lanier

  Memories, Law, Resources

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book edited by John Brockman, 2003.

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• Capitals accumulate faster than population

  Thomas Malthus

  Population

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• Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

  Michio Kaku

  War, Years, Civilization

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• Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.

  Anita Moorjani

  Laughter, Fun, Doe

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• Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hope, Soul, Lost

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.

  John S. Hall

  Smell, Order, Rose

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

  Ariana Franklin

  Running, Strong, Lying

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin

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• In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

  Adam Rapp

  Simple, People, Forever

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• When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

  Ward Cunningham

  Frustrated, Different, Computer

  "Startup mines for riches in collaboration software". The Portland Tribune, March 4, 2008.

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Olympics

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• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  Andrew Tobias

  Running, Thumbs, Pitching

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

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• I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

  Sienna Guillory

  Horse, Men, Risk

  "This Cultural Life: Sienna Guillory". The Independent on Sunday, May 23, 2004.

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• So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

  Jack McDevitt

  Moving, Light, Politician

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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