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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.