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• If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

  Paul Banks

  Games, Chess Game, Cubicles

  "Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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• One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

  William Congreve

  Giving, Age, Invention

  William Congreve (1775). “The old batchelor. The double-dealer. Love for love. The mourning bride”, p.102

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• You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

  Cristina Garcia

  Bird, Switzerland, Locks

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• Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Cutting, Way, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

  Miley Cyrus

  Hippie, Hair, Who I Am

  "Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 29, 2009.

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• I want to so live that God doesn't have to have to give me one minute's

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Giving, Want, Minutes

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• Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

  Tyra Banks

  Firefighter, Design, Fickle

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.996, Simon and Schuster

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• Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.

  Marni Jackson

  Home, Mirrors, Hair

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• If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

  James Altucher

  Gratitude, Creativity, People

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• Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hands, Life Is Like, Cucumbers

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• I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

  Taylor Swift

  Three, Next, Minutes

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• Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

  Jay Leno

  Sports, Hurt, Cities

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• I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

  Ray Romano

  Alzheimer's, Names, Giving

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• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Cards, Records

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• Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Years, Sea, Phones

  "Ketchup off menu for Di Canio's Sunderland". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2013.

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• That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

  Andrew W.K.

  Lonely, Thinking, Should

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

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• And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

  Mark Ronson

  Hot, Taste, Sides

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

  Sally Field

  Thinking, Important, Minutes

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

  Liz Murray

  Doors, People, Sick

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.317, Random House

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• We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Helping, Improvement, Minutes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.15, Penguin

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• One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Distance, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Morning, Reading, Feet

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• When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Teacher, Selfish

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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