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• I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fall, Wake Up, Fainting

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• The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

  Emmet Fox

  Running, Law, Long

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• Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

  Doreen Virtue

  Silence, Soul, Spirit

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2017

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• If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

  Jack Tretton

  America, Giving, Bucks

  "CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XXIV - Jack Tretton wants to give you $1,200" by Paul Miller, www.engadget.com. February 9, 2007.

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• The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Lying, Ignorance

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Military, Real, Fighting

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Gun, Years, Ideas

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• In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?

  Noah Lukeman

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Self

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• [The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Country, Jesus

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• I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

  Justin Timberlake

  Thinking, People, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

  Alice Walker

  Garden, Two, Hours

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

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• I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Real, People, Hours

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Sex, Night, Guy

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Oxygen

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• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  Rob Zombie

  Confusing, Littles, Freak

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beautiful, Flower, Moving

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Done, Accepting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

  Stephen Curry

  Nba Finals, Classic, Tough

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• If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

  Stephan Pastis

  Fall, Parks, Minutes

  "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2005.

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• Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

  Joyce Meyer

  Communication, Years, Minutes

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2013

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• I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.

  Wayne McGregor

  White, Impact, Seductive

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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