Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Wasted Quotes from famous authors such as Kat Timpf, Rush Limbaugh, David Draiman, Mukesh Rishi, Cheryl Burke. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented by some idiotic, anti-free-speech student or professor, people will ask me why I wasted my time writing about it.
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Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
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I support the troops with every fiber of my being. I don’t support them having their lives wasted.
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I am happy with my work and I think my hard work didn’t get wasted.
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I have tried so many fad diets, I’ve wasted so much time looking for a solution when it was right in front of me all along – take care of yourself, nourish your body, surround yourself with good people – you will feel good and will shine in all that you do.
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Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
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Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn’t even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, ‘You’re so healthy, take advantage of it before it’s gone!’ They still can’t hear it.
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I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we’ve wasted our souls.
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I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.
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Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
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A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
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Flowers would be wasted on me. I don’t like valentines. I don’t need gifts. I’m a pragmatic romantic.
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that’s not something to be wasted.
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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.
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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it’s all a lot of nonsense, then it’s a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
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We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
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If I don’t learn something every single day, it’s a wasted day.
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No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it’s practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.
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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
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All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
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I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
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I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on ‘Ilustrado.’
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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
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Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It’s about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they’ve wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It’s only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
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These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can’t or won’t take action!
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Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it’s about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
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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.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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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.
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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.
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The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
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Blacks’ problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
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I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you’re not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
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I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man.
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When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn’t.
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This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.
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If you don’t know what is being said, the rest of the actor’s work is wasted.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
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If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn’t living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.
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I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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Nothing is wasted.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
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It’s true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that’s something I am very proud of.
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The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.’
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When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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I don’t want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can’t stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
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I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny… Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body… I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
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Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
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I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn’t being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I’m working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
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I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, ‘And now… My Novel!,’ which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
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Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
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I think as soon as you’re a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women’s interviews are being wasted on talking about what it’s like being a woman.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers’ money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I have tried so many fad diets, I’ve wasted so much time looking for a solution when it was right in front of me all along – take care of yourself, nourish your body, surround yourself with good people – you will feel good and will shine in all that you do.
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I have seen many times in 100 Crs films there is no content, in short only money is wasted.
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People opposing dance bars claim that a lot of money is wasted in bars. I want to ask them why not target five star hotels, too, where a lot of money is spent?
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn’t know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn’t grab it in the way I would now.
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What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You’ve no control over those things, so in a way, it’s wasted energy to think of them.
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I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.
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In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
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When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
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I believe that there are many talented Filipinos and their talent is great and globally competitive, just waiting to be tapped. I don’t want such great talent to be wasted.
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Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
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His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that’s him!
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If I don’t do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
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The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What’s good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
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Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I’ve got nothing out of it.
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I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.
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It’s great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you’d see in a magazine. But if it doesn’t suit your lifestyle, it’s really wasted.
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It’s appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
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I’m at a point where there isn’t any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit – the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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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.
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I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
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Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.
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I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.
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Life is wasted on the living.
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I live – I live a highly scheduled life. There’s absolutely no time wasted. I’m very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Bad movies are when people go, ‘oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don’t even want to go back again.’
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I wasted so many years in my youth.
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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.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn’t feel like it was worthy of a book.
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Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.
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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can’t or won’t take action!
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Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
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A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that’s wasted in sending it back to the lab and having it developed and brought back, it would make me insane. I love getting my hands on the stuff immediately. That doesn’t work for everybody. It just works for me.
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Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
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Hours wasted in traffic represent not only lost wages but enormous amounts of economic activity that might have happened. Congestion indirectly increases consumer prices, makes travel times unreliable for commuters and truckers, and precludes many people from accessing jobs in urban hubs.
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At its heart, ‘Fat City’ is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
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So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.
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Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That’s because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.
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A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life’s pleasures – a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
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When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn’t let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that’s what was so fabulous about him – he was very down to earth.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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I’m not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you’re dressed or you’re not. What is this in-between stuff?
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Disparity is Australia’s worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to ‘close the gap.’
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I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
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I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven’t wasted my life, and that is I’ve got some grandchildren. You can’t overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.
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There are no shortcuts, and you can’t wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.
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Getting wasted is only OK when you’re young enough to not know better.
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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.
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I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at ‘Gossip Girl’ auditions, thinking, ‘Wow, I really wasted my money.’
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I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn’t I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
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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.
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The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can’t take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they’re a complete psycho – ‘Great, I’ve just wasted all this time on you!’
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I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.
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For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of 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.’
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don’t want anyone to worry their life away – time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.
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Imagine – four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
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In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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Appreciate your body now. One day, you’ll look back and regret all the time you wasted worrying about not looking perfect, because you were perfect the whole time.
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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
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I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, ‘Oh, God, all those wasted years!’ But now I think it’s just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs.
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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Every day has to be a day that counts. It can’t be a wasted day. I’m very dedicated to always keep doing something that I would consider good.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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I wouldn’t have wasted a lot of time pursuing music. I was very lucky that my first demos got accepted.
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I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.
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The money has always been wasted on me. I don’t care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father’s daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It’s not had the love it deserves over twenty years.
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
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By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.
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Every year, millions of vaccines get wasted due to inadequate storage facilities. India is a focus for us, as this is a very big challenge for the country as well as other countries across the globe.
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Record sales don’t really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn’t feel like he wasted his pocket money.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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I have wasted my hours.
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I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
