Minutes Quotes
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
Ben Affleck
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
William Shakespeare
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My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
Richard Price
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It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.
Michael Jeter
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Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
Maureen Dowd
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When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
Willard Scott
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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Michel Faber
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.
Erma Bombeck
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I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.
Sergio Leone
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
William Shakespeare
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Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.
Paul Auster
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What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.
William Shatner
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Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.
Wubbo Ockels
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Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
Joshua Foer
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I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
Henry Hopper
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Steve Earle
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
Norman Lear
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For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
Jonathan Nolan
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I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
Carmine Gallo
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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
Jane Austen
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I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.
Pete Yorn
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Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)
Michael Robotham