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I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because too much encourages us to spend too much time with our lower nature, and we have a higher nature as well.
Terence Trent D'arby /
Nature Time People
Encourages
Souls
Too Much Time
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People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on such basic processes that affect thousands or millions and which we know how to do much better.
Dominic Cummings /
Higher
Little Time
Millions
Profile
Affect
Basic
Few People
Processes
Tend
Thousands
Too Much Time
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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney / Writer
Eye
Fighting
Frustrating
Hockey
Ice
Puck
Time Passes
Too Much
Time Your Game
Fights
Watch
Eyes
Passes
Points
Scoring
Too Much Time
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Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.
Srikumar Rao / Author
Bored
Cooperating
Current Situation
Drudgery
Fate
Situation
Spending
Stuck
Too Much
Universe
Current
Desires
Present
Rut
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I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.
Scott Weiss /
Available
Candidates
Founders
Mediocre
Waste
Time Best Work
Cheap
Best Time Work
Networks
Cultural
Best Work Time
Interview
Settle
Too Much Time
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I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a little bit too much time with your nose in your book or with your fingers on a keyboard, and you miss out.
Taika Waititi / Film Director
Fingers
Nose
Too Much Time
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Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
John Larroquette / Film Actor
Boys
Miles
Next
Perfect
Silence
Thinking
Thousand Miles
Too Much
Two
Boy
Seat
Complete
Fascinates
Her
Spend
Perfect World
Says
Suburban
Too Much Time
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I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.
John Legend / Singer-Songwriter
Talent
Ten
Time Experience Me
Singer
Met
Pass
Too Much Time
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Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
Rudy Giuliani / Former Mayor Of New York City
Defense
Dollars
Million Dollars
Offense
President Obama
Republicans
Preserve
Stole
Too Much Time
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I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
Jodi Picoult / Author
Believe
Block
Blocked
College
Manage
Night
Paper
Too Much
Writing
Time Always Believe
Writer
Fix
Time Believe Always
Itself
Due
Too Much Time
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My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
John Schneider /
Running
Too Much
Unnecessary
Time Change Me
Younger
Biggest
Change Time Me
Spend
Longer
Tend
Too Much Time
Wheel
Worrying
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I love watching TV, I probably spend too much time on my phone, but it's probably not very good for your mental health is it? It indulges some of your worst personality traits, like staring at other people's lives on Instagram for hours on end.
Natasia Demetriou /
Mental Health
Traits
Watching Tv
Too Much Time
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski / Writer
Wisdom
Time
Blame
Capable
Energy
Enough
Growing
Past
Too Much
Much
Being
Too
Getting
Excuses
Finding
Spend
Line
Other
Putting
Themselves
Too Much Time
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I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.
Anita Elberse /
Sports
Data
Domain
Games
Movie Industry
Numbers
Public Domain
Television
Too Much
Watching Television
Time Movies Me
Awful Lot
Industries
Sales
Sectors
Struck
Too Much Time
Weekly
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I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.
Emily Meade /
Hectic
Personal Life
Romance
Life Time Focus
Complex
Too Much Time
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I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
Joel Edgerton / Actor
Enough Time
Evening
Okay
Surf
Twenties
Time Enough Day
Closer
Wasted
Thirties
Too Much Time
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Favourite
Phones
Time Your People
App
Time Looking People
Recordings
Too Much Time
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We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
Michael Ashcroft /
Attacking
Labour
Offering
Plans
Setting
Alternative
Time Change People
Change Time People
Gordon
Missed
Too Much Time
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I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
Holliday Grainger / Actress
Leeds
Online
Time Myself Me
Admitted
Bug
Studying
Threw
Too Much Time
Transferred
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Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.
Harry Connick, Jr. / Singer
Monitoring
Months
Time Work Home
Anymore
Miss
Work Time Home
How Much
How Much Time
Too Much Time
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I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.
Aliko Dangote / Business Magnate
Car
Atlanta
Property
Too Much
Trouble
Two
Used
Everywhere
Time People Own
Now
Lot
Had
Much
Own
Call
Too
Stay
Homes
Takes
Too Much Time
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'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
Thank You
Admission
Fulfilled
Guilt
Time Always Your
Thank
Too Much Time
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I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.
John C. Reilly / Actor
Colossal
Eight
Feelings
Games
Guilty
Hours
Satisfying
Too Much
Video
Waste
Time Always Game
End Of The Day
Spent
Too Much Time
Video Game
Waste Of Time
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One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.
John Carmack / Programmer
Faster
Vehicle
Time People Anything
Crashes
Time People Accept
Rebuild
Too Much Time
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When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
Ray Davies / Musician
Cutting
Keys
Notes
Over It
Records
Stage
Tone
Too Much
Cut
Spend
Record
Lower
Reach
Too Much Time
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What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
Neill Blomkamp / Film Director
Annoyed
Grenade
Life Time Society
Describe
Suppose
Mastered
Too Much Time
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I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
Ben Schnetzer / Film Actor
Admire
Caring
Concern
Perceive
Time World Yourself
Limit
Too Much Time
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I don't think that now I am a star. I don't get too much time to interact with people, and I am quite busy with work. I work. I come back home, and my loved ones are still the same. They will never change. And, I travel. I have not realised or internalised that life has changed.
Rajkummar Rao /
Busy
Loved Ones
Realised
Life Time Change
Life Change Work
Interact
Too Much Time
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Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.
Mariella Frostrup / Journalist
Busy
Majority
Wounds
Bruise
Time Thinking People
Lavish
Too Much Time
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Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!
Michael Gerber / Author
Clients
Enterprise
Hints
Satisfied
Success Stories
Success Time Business
Too Much Time
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I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.
Ashley Olsen / Actress
Men
Body
Driving
Mirrors
Paparazzi
Rearview Mirror
Your Body
Love Time Good
Attack
Respond
Followed
Mirror
Rearview
Too Much Time
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You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.
Harry Redknapp / Football Manager
Computers
Time Good Important
Real Thing
Too Much Time
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Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler / Actress
Clean
Eggs
Filled
Hands
Huge
Poor
Stories
Thinking
Too Much
Time Good People
Assistant
Besides
Clean Up
Prank
Too Much Time
Trailer
Whenever
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Our philosophy at Zoom is to create a company that promotes self-motivation. I have told our managers not to spend too much time motivating employees. You have to create an environment where employees can motivate themselves. That is really important because self-motivation is more sustainable.
Eric Yuan /
Managers
Sustainable
Employees
Motivate
Motivating
Too Much Time
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale / Rapper
Girl
Ambition
Attractive
Beautiful
Time Myself Beautiful
Drive
Beautiful Thing
Dated
Ended
Liking
Most Beautiful
Most Beautiful Thing
Too Much Time
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
Rahul Dravid / Cricketer
Decent
Format
Skills
Waste
Time Good Look
Fairly
Time Good Game
Shortened
Specific
Too Much Time
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Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
Liane Moriarty / Author
Commit
Editing
Poetic
Profound
Waste
Time Work Space
Count
Work Space Time
Previous
Too Much Time
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
Queen Latifah / Singer-Songwriter
Friends
Amount
Blow
Couple
Crazy
Damn
Energy
Enjoy
Hands
Motorcycle
Negative
Program
Shots
Tequila
Too Much
Read
Cruel
Discuss
Watch
Everybody Else
Limited
Rather
Ride
Throw
Too Much Time
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver / Actor
Chicago
Honorable
Juilliard
Patriotic
Life Time My Life
Join
Mcdonald
Marines
Rent
Too Much Time
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My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through.
Georgia May Jagger / Model
Coming Home
Homework
Modelling
Sleepless Nights
Time Home Dad
Nights
Carefully
Chose
Plane
Pulled
Sleepless
Too Much Time
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I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
Dan Shechtman /
Academia
Capable
Crisis
Good Job
Models
Role Models
Time Education Good
Fairly
Teachers
Education Time Good
Classes
Secondary
Too Much Time
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