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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• Ask yourself to slow down.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Peace, Asks

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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• I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

  Thomas McDonell

  Thinking, Acting, Film And Television

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

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

  Mark Strand

  Light, Littles, Poetry Is

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• I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Metabolism, Harder

  Source: collider.com

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• I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

  James Richardson

  Doe, Brown, Slowing

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• Believe in yourself. Believe in your heart and once you get there, don't slow down.

  Jon Jones

  Believe, Heart, Mma

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• The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

  Chuck Liddell

  Sports, Past, Mma

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Creative, Littles, Film

  "Marley & Me - Jennifer Aniston interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

  Carl Honore

  Meaningful, People, Mind

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Mind, Doe, Towns

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• If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Schedules, Ifs, Knows

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Long, Important

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• The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

  Steven Lopez

  Spiritual, Long, Done

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• I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

  James Dyson

  Want, Moments, Should

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• Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.

  Richard Simmons

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Fascination, Looks, Looking Good

  1990 In the NewYork Times, 7 Jan.

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• The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Ideas, Able, Faster

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• I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

  Dave Attell

  Laughing, Mind, Crowds

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• The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Growth

  "Global Temperature Update Through 2012" by James Hansen, M. Sato and R. Ruedy, January 15, 2013.

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• There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

  Donatella Versace

  "ELLE 25: A Look Back". www.elle.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.

  Richard Sennett

  Victory, Needs, Roles

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