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Quotes About Repetition

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.
~ Carlos Castaneda
If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.
~ Chris Hardwick
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
~ Alethea Kontis
Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.
~ Tom Upton
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
~ Ben Harper
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
~ Robert Hass
I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.
~ Robert Maxwell
I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
~ Sandra Bullock
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Dark Horse was my second time working with Todd Solondz. I love him truly, very much. And I don't think he'd ever worked with an actor a second time. It was groundbreaking.
~ Selma Blair
Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.
~ Seth Rogen
I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.
~ Stan Lee
People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.
~ Steven Bauer
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
~ William Shakespeare
I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
~ Karen Chance
I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.
~ Katy Perry
A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.
~ Kay Panabaker
If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.
~ Larry Ellison
I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.
~ Lauren Kate
I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.
~ Lily Cole
You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.
~ Mark Duplass
Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
~ Mason Cooley
I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.
~ Michael De Luca