Seconds Quotes - Page 24

• I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

  Richard Branson

  Mind, Meetings, I Can

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• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Kids, Lunch, Clothes

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

  Diem Brown

  Ducks, Waiting, Gone

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• There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Waiting, Hamburgers, Lines

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?

  Karin Fossum

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

  Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House

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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Guy

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• According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

  Morey Amsterdam

  Men, Twenties, Statistics

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• Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Love, Laughing, Risk

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• You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

  John Medina

  Business, Attention, Minutes

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• I'm a big boy, but I can get jiggy with it. Ladies, I will go to dance clubs, and I will tear it up hardcore for a good 30 seconds.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Funny, Boys, Tears

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• I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

  Katharine McPhee

  Country, Children, Silly

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Superhero, Three, Hard

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

  Garrison Wynn

  Behavior, Tolerate, Persons

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• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  Garrison Wynn

  Stupid, Average, Rest Of Your Life

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• And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

  Murray Walker

  Change, Car, Tea

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• I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

  Mackenzie Crook

  Couple, Two, Fog

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• 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Meaningful, Lifetime, Used

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• Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

  Alex Winter

  Time, Jokes, Amount

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

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• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

  Dick Wolf

  Walking Away, People, Car

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• If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the heart. The fans are what connect the essence of the music around the world and keep the us alive.

  Shannon Leto

  Heart, Essence, Fans

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• The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Thinking, Degrees

  "Rebooting the 'Cosmos'". Interview with Mike Kessler, www.gq.com. March 6, 2014.

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• You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.

  S.C. Stephens

  School, Sixty Minutes, Things In Life

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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