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“Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Two Ideas Home Able Purpose House Parent Minutes Roots Sells Investment Chosen Principal Furniture

Author:Sister Parish

“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”

Whole Hours Half Watches Four Minutes Effects Twenties Spread Aids Wheels Labour Exertion Insensible Winding Up

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.”

Minutes Fine Adrenaline Junkie Crocodiles Adrenaline Rush Apex Predators

Author:Steve Irwin

“Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.”

People Giving Walks Morning Minutes Personality Ocean Blue Brilliant Italian Pot Asian Melting Suburbs Sydney Eclectic Melting Pot Eclectic Style Blue Ocean

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.”

Ifs Want Important Play Grows Meditation Minutes Discipline Skills Training Perseverance Piano Here And There Systematic Playing Piano

Author:Jack Kornfield

“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.”

Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

“I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.”

School Hours Morning Minutes Higher Weight Heavy Legs Afternoon Volume Lifting Chins Old School Heavy Weights

Author:Hugh Jackman

“You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.”

Jobs Waiting Minutes Office Slave Clock

Author:Lauryn Hill

“We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.”

Ifs Next Minutes Doctors Sorry Sat Warning Compassionate Better Off

Author:Bill Phillips

“For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.”

Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price

“I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.”

Thinking Levels Minutes Arcs

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.”

People Trying Wells Film Choices Lines Minutes Directors Details Broads Strokes Subtlety Between The Lines

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“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.”

Way Firsts Made Stories Wanted Hours Cutting Minutes Directors Add Seven Studios Forty One Minute

Author:Kim Jee-woon

“[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.”

Trying Jobs Challenges Week Minutes Television Shooting Fringe Laurels

Author:John Noble

“I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out there who would answer those questions, and so, if I can take a few minutes to do it, I will. It's not threatening for us. We're not being stalked, so it's easier.”

Ifs I Can Remember Answers Minutes Easier Teenager Threatening Screenwriting

Author:John August

“When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.”

Wells Feelings Happens Minutes Achieve Highest Beats Auditions Great Feelings

Author:Madeline Zima

“From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back...”

Country Lasts America Feet Minutes Wake Up Over It Last Minute

Author:Robert Redford

“Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.”

Ifs Thinking Want Film Winning Minutes Separation Evening Enjoyed

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.”

People Knows Littles Lasts Next Bits Minutes Television Little Bit Faster Shock Episodes Schedules Last Minute

Author:Charisma Carpenter

“Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you won't make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it's still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You're prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Wells Stills Faces Decision Minutes Hundred Prepared Spheres Crew Way Of Thinking Reflexes Bad Decision

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don't even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.”

People Looks Use Stuff My Own Minutes Huge Goes On Computer Girlfriend My Girlfriend

Author:Michael Shannon

“You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.”

Needs Should Able Forget Audience Minutes Scene Impression Lasting Portraits Forget You

Author:Chris Bauer

“I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'”

Said Home Bigs Minutes Mass Relax Existential Garbage Therapists

Author:Spalding Gray

“I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.”

Mind I Can Book Simple Five Minutes Information Five Minutes Clutter

Author:Albert Einstein

“America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.”

Years Looks America Minutes Japan

Author:Akio Morita

“Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.”

Knows Should Dies Given Five Minutes Should Have Five Minutes

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.”

“Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.”

Humans Waiting Minutes

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.”

Kids Fun Waiting Chance Minutes Discipline Be Good Like Me Grades Plus Wrestling Ninth Grade

Author:Robin Williams

“'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.”

Stories Minutes Love Story Bedroom

Author:Taylor Swift

“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.”

Three Next Minutes One Minute

Author:Taylor Swift

“It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.”

Lying Hours Minutes One Minute

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.”

Thinking Mean Hard Enough Minutes Like You Ten

Author:Ani DiFranco

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.”

Giving Believe Country Seems Turns Liberty Impossible Minutes Giving Up Incredibles Invisible Faithful Tides Never Giving Up Place And Time

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I never know what I'm going to wear until five minutes before I go somewhere... I guess I know what I'm comfortable in. I don't know how to describe that, I mean you either put it on and go 'no way' or 'OK, let's go.'”

Knows Way Mean Know How Five Minutes Comfortable Five Minutes

Author:Kristen Stewart

“What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.”

Want Ideas Character Stories Minutes Singing Theatre Screens Justify Impatient

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.”

Minutes Training Train Intense Flags Intense Training

Author:Hugh Jackman

“American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.”

Together Minutes Average Time Together American Family

Author:Daniel L. Doctoroff

“Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.”

People Feels Self Five Minutes Love You Conscious Hollywood Studios Suits Five Minutes Self Conscious

Author:Eva Green

“I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.”

Ifs Way I Can Would Be Minutes Effects Fronts Psychological Berlin Wade

Author:Bess Truman

“I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.”

Ifs Hands Laughing Minutes Goes On Comic Frustrated Microphones

Author:Michael Caine

“I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.”

Thinking Mind Mother Sound Minutes Stage Cry Quiet Method Actresses Blank

Author:Shirley Temple

“If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.”

Ifs Walks Five Streets Minutes Five Minutes Obese

Author:Carnie Wilson

“A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.”

World Wells Today Numbers Millions Fire Minutes Horror Envy Nuclear Scales Chinese Poison Lasting Survivor Communist Elsewhere Explosions Wipe Chairman Devastated

Author:John F. Kennedy

“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!”

Knows Said Bigs Next Sports Hurt Lines White Cities Happened Minutes Car Bus Concentrating One Minute Houston Whitney Sports Cars City Bus

Author:Jay Leno

“55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!”

Mean Shows Loses Week Minutes Remote Control

Author:Jay Leno

“Seems there's a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don't think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay.”

“Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.”

Knows Wells Long Lying Three Minutes Speech Inauguration

Author:Jay Leno

“George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears his mind. Sometimes just a little too much.”

Mind Littles Sometimes Too Much Minutes Work Out Sixty Ninety

Author:Jay Leno

“You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.”

Knows Next Left Easy Sleep Forget Taken Too Much Minutes Couple Wake Up Twenties Pills Irresponsible Medication Forget You Left Alone Sleeping Pills

Author:Judy Garland

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