Faster Quotes - Page 9

• I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Age, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.

  Paul Saffo

  Gun, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.economist.com

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• You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful at the right moment. I don't know if it helps to go faster, but for sure it's an important element that has helped me a lot. Being experienced helps you to make fewer mistakes when you are on track. This is the positive side for being around for so many years!

  Valentino Rossi

  Mistake, Years, Track

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.

  Elaine Equi

  Philosophy, Believe, Phones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

  Andrea Arnold

  Christmas, Sleep, Kids

  "Writer-Director Andrea Arnold Talks WUTHERING HEIGHTS at Sundance". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

  Antonio Banderas

  Heart, Thinking, Littles

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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  Candice Bergen

  Book, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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• One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

  Lewis Black

  Interesting, Comedy, Release

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• I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Thank God, Excitement

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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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• I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Easier, Journalist

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• Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mean, Broken, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Want, Robots, Imagine

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• Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

  David Byrne

  Cycling, Joy, Transport

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Interview with Jeremy Deller, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, People, Politically Correct

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• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  Duane G. Carey

  Powerful, Air, Flying

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• It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

  Graydon Carter

  Dying, Hussein, Occupation

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• We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

  Claude Chabrol

  Police, Eras, Shows

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

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• Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

  Margaret Cho

  Running, Keys, Childhood

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Philosophical, Player, Years

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• Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

  Maureen Dowd

  Party, Talking, Cocktail Parties

  "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stuff, Neighbor, Force

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• Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

  Daniel Goleman

  Smart, Media, Phones

  "Focus on How You Connect With Others" by Daniel Goleman, November 12, 2013.

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• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  Alison Gopnik

  Phones, Mail, Phone Calls

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.229, Macmillan

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