Minutes Quotes - Page 29

• Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Four

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

  David Byrne

  London, Beats, Tempo

  "In David Byrne, Meltdown 2015 has found more than a talking head" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2015.

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• I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM and that's really changed everything. Starting your day off with that and ending with that is pretty powerful. Twenty minutes, you just notice the difference. When I get lazy and don't get it in, I can feel a difference. I do it first thing when I wake up.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Powerful, Years, Differences

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• If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Shopping, People, Fifteen

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• It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.

  Mark Sheppard

  Jobs, Stars, People

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

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• Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

  Tina Fey

  Space, Age, Stories

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• It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

  Josh Brolin

  Showers, Take Me, Ready

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• I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

  Johnny Carson

  People, Lucky, World

  "Johnny Carson: The Man Who Retired" by Bill Zehme, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

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• I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

  Scott Caan

  Stills, I Can

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• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Actors, Useless

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

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• I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Giving, Needs

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• When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

  Jai Courtney

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Jobs, Crazy, Careers

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• Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

  Josh Duhamel

  Dog, Stars, Wife

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• There are rumors that there is a John Edwards sex tape. People say it's twenty minutes of Edwards caressing and stroking...And that's just the part where he fixes his hair.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Hair, People

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• When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

  Darrell Hammond

  Home, Florida, Parent

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• To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Lying, Home

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• If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Politics, Contractor

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• I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.

  Gregor Collins

  Ice, Cream, Jerry

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Block, Taken

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• ... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Years, Proud, Journalism

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