Five Minutes Quotes - Page 18

• I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.

  Megan Martha White

  Car, Able, Breaking Down

  "White Stripes For Coffee And Cigarettes". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. May 9, 2004.

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

  Oscar Wilde

  Car, Buffets, Next

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• There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Real, Writing

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• I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.

  Francis Dunnery

  Song, Hero, Angel

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• It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Investment, Minutes

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• I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Strong, Years, Political

  "Gottfried's key to political humor" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 2, 2013.

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• When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Steps, Conflict, Minutes

  "Sympathy for the devil" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

  Mike Judge

  Eight, People, Awkward

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

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• As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

  Mark Duplass

  Directors, Looks, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  People, Groups, Video

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Get Better, Wonderful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Yes, it leads people to believe that they have more information than our cops, but then, at some point, before you know it, you're both caught up. Everybody, when they're watching the who-dun-it shows, is making guesses in the first five minutes anyway. We just kind of give them what they want.

  Kristin Lehman

  Believe, Giving, People

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

  Damian Kulash

  Eight, Air, People

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Ham, Radio

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• If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

  Michael Patrick King

  Girl, Fun, Nests

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• I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

  Dennis Prager

  Ideas, Mind, Minutes

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• I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

  Garry Hynes

  Winning, Firsts, Minutes

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• And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

  Michel Faber

  People, Mind, Substance

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• Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

  Lynda Obst

  Sick, Phrases, Film

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• I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, Thinking, Oxygen

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

  Charles Dickens

  Party, Mean, Men

  Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)

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• Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Women, House

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• I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Minutes, Five

  Source: collider.com

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• When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Drifting Off, Goal, Finding Yourself

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