I Spent Quotes
807 I Spent quotes by 704 unique authors
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
— Arabella Weir
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing…
— Ida B. Wells
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I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
— Allen West
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
— Olivia Wilde
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I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and…
— Robbie Williams
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of…
— E. O. Wilson
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I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
— Donnie Yen
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I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and…
— Niklas Zennstrom
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
— Caitlin Moran
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the…
— Helen McCrory
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I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups…
— Evgeny Morozov
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What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of…
— Peter Cameron
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I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the…
— Anne Tyler
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I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.
— Dave Eggers
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Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:…
— Joe Dunthorne
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The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing…
— Aldous Huxley
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I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I…
— Steven Wright
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they…
— Robin Wasserman
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When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a…
— Jen Lancaster
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Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing…
— Jonathan Stroud
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less…
— Yann Martel
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I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it…
— Gary Paulsen
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