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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

Love, Time, Down

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

Time, Give, Try

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya

Time, Best, Children

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Music, Time, Nothing

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates

Time, Business, Yourself

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, Time, Past

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Character, Person

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Gore Vidal

Time, Times, Material

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Time, Lost, Happens

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Mistakes, Win

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
Dolly Parton

Time, Money, Business

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
William Shatner

Time, Nothing, Writing

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.
Paul Ryan

Time, Children, Young

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Stop, Fifty

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Home, Play

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
Doug Coupland

Time, Saying, Off

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Time, Living

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
Michael J. Fox

Time, School, Career

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright

Time, Saying, Learn

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

Time, End, Around

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
Chris Rock

Time, Wanted, Comedy

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Don Marquis

Time, Him, Before

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
Tori Amos

Time, Women, Pressure

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.
Tom Hiddleston

Time, Long, Two

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
Barbara Corcoran

Time, Real, Seven

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
Michael Bloomberg

Time, Good, Government

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson

Time, Remember, Working

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Change, Time, Made

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
Jessica Savitch

Time, Goal, Network

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