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When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

David Hasselhoff

Life You Realize Forward

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

Good Me Science Time

In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.

Smile Best Good Time

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.

David Chipperfield

Art Me Wife Architecture

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

Television Enlightenment Inspiration

I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Best Stars Time Grateful

There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It's easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.

Water You Eating Negative

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

Jasmine Guinness

Money Charity Events Some

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

Short Energy Rules Genuine

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Time Regret Happy Dark Dark Side

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott

Man People Talent Ambition

A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club - I always have done and always will.

Geoffrey Boycott

Life My Life Cricket Problems

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Me Feel Fame Like

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Wealth Nation Lost Same

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

Wynton Marsalis

Good Science You Mind

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

War Time People Believe

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Freedom River Sweet Will

The word 'epiphany' gets thrown around, but truly, the first time I stepped on stage, I had that moment of clarity. I realized God gave me a gift, and this gift is to make people laugh, and this gift should not be wasted on trying to configure some electrical components.

God Me Time Gift

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Time Better Trying Others

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Life My Life Youth Everything

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Music Me Feel Born

The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.

Love Money Society People

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Nature Work Time Childhood

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

August Strindberg

Nature Step Progress Energy

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.'

Day Time You Evening

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a hit.

Work Hard Work Money Nobody

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