#time

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bed #calculate #calories #consuming #did

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#again #art #even #hundred #movement

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#around #different #different things #every #every time

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#conditioned #just #lot #times #you

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it. ↗

— Iris Dement

#began #how #make #really #since

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#him #hitting #i #thinking #time

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#education #fund #go #i #know

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#art form #been #cinema #effects #extraordinary

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#films #low-key #more #simple #sometimes