Quotes About Repetition

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

That's football. Observe, orient, decide, act, over and over and over again. The quicker you do these things, the better you're going to be.

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

I can quote every single line in 'The Big Lebowski' from start to finish. That's what happens when you see a movie two dozen times.

Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.

When I was a kid, I used to play a game called 'Grand Prix Two.' Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos - it was a real pain!

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.

I'm sick of seeing John Cena against Randy Orton for the 500th time.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

The moon's a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say to the moon except You again? You again.

If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can know things, you know that he has tried to leap out of that window before, and he is about to try again. He is trying to kill himself. He has tried nine times in the past fifty days. If a picture on the wall can regret, you regret this. It is a terrible waste for this man to keep trying to kill himself, since he does not at all want to die.

El orden es una especie de impulso de repetición que establece de una vez para todas cuándo, dónde y cómo debe efectuarse determinado acto, de modo que en toda situación correspondiente nos ahorraremos las dudas e indecisiones

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?