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“Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.”

Years Night Given Company Class Minutes Movement Contrary Drunk Dust Dawn Halls Legends Ballet Every Night Vulgar Rehearsal Given Up Champagne Filthy Ballerina Financiers

Book:Death in the Fifth Position

Source: Death in the Fifth Position

“One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.”

Men Heart Matter Enough Found Given Wonder Meditation Minutes My Heart Conscience Extremes Conclusion Posts Unconscious Courageous Serenity Megalomaniacs

Book:Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

Giving Looks Given Sound Minutes Honest Havens Fairs Vote Responsible Election Strikes Statements Damn Things To Do Voters Not Fair

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.”

Men Hard Earth Humanity Turns Fall Next Names Given Born Hours Destiny Feet Minutes He Man Succeed All Things Blind Assuming Stores Iron Cycles Agony Hopes And Fears Foreboding Faltering

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.”

Time Given Minutes

Author:Rae Foley

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.”

Persons Use Given Five Minutes Radio Limitation Range Stations Unlimited Five Minutes Ham Inexpensive

Author:Charles Simonyi

“Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.”

Men Given Minutes Ten Conversation Men And Women Barriers Amazing Things Intersex Cultural Barriers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.”

People Trying Wells Reason Enough Together Film Three Given Audience Minutes Direct Investing Kitchen Consistently Saying No Chatting

Author:Bruce Beresford

“Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.”

Important Sometimes Body Moving Given Simple Week Minutes Legs Your Body Intensity Workout

Author:Jozy Altidore

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“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

“The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.”

Feels Given Minutes Performances

Author:Charlton Heston

“People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.”

People Given Saws Rights Minutes Citizens Constitution Privilege Underwear American Citizens Immunity Bombers Interrogation

Author:Michele Bachmann

“The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.”

Thinking Years Said Stories Might Given Hours Simple Half Watches Minutes Rose Series Magazines Damn Articles Fifteen Compelled Cousin Gloves Gypsy Half Hours Peeling Damn Good

Author:Karen Abbott

“When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.”

Given Minutes Intimacy Portraits

Author:Giles Duley

“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.”