One Minute Quotes - Page 4

• I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

  Natalie Portman

  Teenager, Play, Adults

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• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

  Amber Tamblyn

  Stars, Business, Luck

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• One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

  Keith Richards

  Ovation, Next, Minutes

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

  Charles Lamb

  Years, Heaven, Spheres

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• The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

  Paul Robeson

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974".

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

  Kimbra

  Artist, Media, Depth

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• One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Ignorance, Wife, Silence

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• Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

  Rick Perry

  Ideas, Tears, Able

  "Rick Perry Discusses His Flat Tax Plan, Immigration, Romney". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Character, Kissing, Doors

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Thinking, Guy, World

  Song: The Pause Of Mr. Claus, Album: Arlo

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• I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

  Richie Sambora

  Guy, Lucky, Granted

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• My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

  Charles Gounod

  Thinking, Weakness, Looks

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• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  Ed Belfour

  Sports, Hero, Thinking

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• One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

  Jessica Ennis

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• 'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Play, Gigs

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

  Chris Martin

  Gloves, Next, Minutes

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• Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Winning, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

  Jordan Peele

  Running, People, Imagination

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Minutes, Puzzling

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Thinking, Should Have

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• For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

  Suzanne Collins

  Grandma, Reality, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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