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• But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes.

  Paul Reiser

  Heart, Kissing, Two

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• It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Moving, Our Generation, Ideas

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• Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

  Roy H. Williams

  Book, Today, Behavior

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.12, BookBaby

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• Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

  William Booth

  Christian, College, Years

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• Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Years, Needs

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Democracy, Voters, Want

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• A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Morning, Years

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• Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

  Dan Poynter

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Marketing

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

  Jim Rohn

  Regret, Dust, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2016

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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• You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

  Burt Munro

  Life, People, Motorcycle

  "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.

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• We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Guy, Theatre

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

  Chris Hadfield

  Smile, Mean, Weather

  "Interview with Atlantis astronauts". Interview with John Holliman, www.cnn.com. November 14, 1995.

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Essence, Practice

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• You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

  Kelli White

  Running, Workout, Cutting

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• If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.63, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.

  Ellen Page

  Differences, Effort, World

  "Time to Thrive". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2014.

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• Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Talking, Use

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• Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Giving, Victory, Looks

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• I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

  Miley Cyrus

  Trying, Able, Hearing

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• In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'

  Doug Benson

  Funny, Weather, Waiting

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• Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Jobs, Character, Guitar

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• I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes.  Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  Noga Alon

  Science, Years, Radio

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• It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Integrity, Writing, People

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

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• George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

  Tom Petty

  Guy, Kind, Minutes

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