“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.” YearsHas BeensTodayCoursesWaitingInterestWonderfulMinutesKingsActressesGiantsApesKing Kong Author:David Letterman
“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.” PeopleKnowsYearsPersonsHas BeensTwoDiesCausesResultsBrainTalkingFiveMinutesDiseaseScientistAveragePostsMusclesFive YearsAlsDiagnosisTerminalTerminal Disease Author:Steve Gleason
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert
“On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.” PeopleHas BeensMadeHardShowsAgeHalfTalkingPlayerMinutesSeriousBonesHard TimesJealousOne MinuteSerious ThingsMadeleines Author:Bill Maher
“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.” IfsWellsHas BeensCoursesDifficultMinutesTestsTwentiesEnjoyedEnduranceSurvivedMudOne MinuteHutsLeeds Author:Steven Morrissey
“So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?” ThinkingWellsHeartHas BeensStillsAgeFunGrowsBreakGoneGrowing UpMinutesMy HeartDaughterBoringMy DaughterWeekendHittingTalk To MeBreaking My Heart Author:Barack Obama
“When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.” YearsLongHas BeensLastsStuffExistenceStepsHappenedMinutesLong TimeToolsOkayGuitarBoundariesPushingBad ThingsMags Author:Joe Satriani
“I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.” KnowsInspirationalHas BeensHardEnoughPlayPoetryWaitingMinutesTwentiesExtrasPlay HardEnough Already Author:Andrea Gibson
“I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.” FeelsHas BeensAbleFeltAbilityEconomyMinutesPicksBlessed Author:Jim Cramer
“The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.” LongHas BeensPlansMinutesFoolConversationDisappearPerceiveTroublesomeTiresome Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“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.” Has BeensFactsLastsSilenceToo MuchWifeMinutesIgnoranceDiseaseVictimProfessionMedicalConspiracyWomens RightsOne MinuteMedical Profession Author:Christabel Pankhurst
“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!” IfsFirstsHas BeensI CanWantedSchoolYoungPassionCan DoActingMinutesStageHigh SchoolFirst TimeDoctorsTheaterMy PassionFreshmanDay LifeI Can Do This Author:Sophia Bush
“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.” WayWellsHas BeensFilmFeltWalksSituationFiveMinutesI RealizedFive MinutesBiggest FearOverreaching Author:Anne Hathaway
“Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.” Has BeensFilmFiveMinutesSickPhrasesFive Minutes Author:Lynda Obst
“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.” ThinkingYearsMeanHas BeensWholeEconomyGoneFiveMinutesInstitutionsCreditIndispensableOxygenFive MinutesCompetenceHalt Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.” PeopleIfsLongHas BeensDifferentEnoughSongPathGroupsMinutesTaxesDollarsBillionsEnough TimeHad Enough Author:John Fogerty
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.” KnowsMenMeanHas BeensTwoLawCoursesPartyFiveAliveMinutesComplicatedLawyerSuitsFive MinutesPremisesDisagreementDronesScarecrow Author:Charles Dickens
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.” KindMayHas BeensTwoFeelingsSoundDarkConsciousnessWatchesHeardMinutesColorShotsLaysLoudRememberedEtcIntensityVividDistinguishedLuminousCannons Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.” Has BeensSaidFactsPresidentTalkingMinutesPercentEvidenceToughTerroristReportsIranAlsApprovalPresident BushRatingAl QaedaApproval Rating Author:Jay Leno
“I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.” LooksHas BeensBookNextRoomsKnownMinutesNeededPressesVersionsLook UpHotelButtonsHandyHotel Rooms Author:Margaret Atwood
“The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no?” KnowsInspirationalMeanHas BeensAbleLastsRememberSpeakReligiousMinutesCirclesDeliciousLast Minute Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.” MenWorldHas BeensLeftAbilityModernMinutesPersonalityDevelopmentHigherMetsNormalAspectScientistPatientVanityObsessedEncountersEnterprisePortionsScholarAutonomyFragmentsExaggerationMorbidSufferersTechniciansPsychiatricHigher Learning Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.” ThinkingKindHas BeensJobsRememberNightNextMemoriesWatchesFiveChildhoodMinutesStageReadyGoes OnOpeningMake SenseQueensMumSpainSchizophrenicVomitingOpening Night Author:Javier Bardem
“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.” PeopleHas BeensWomenLosesMinutesMemorablePretending Author:Lillian Hellman
“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsShouldLittlesHas BeensMatterMightWantedGrowsGrowing UpSawsWiseMinutesRocksMaterialsGrewGrew UpPerformancesExcitingVersionsComedianBoredRock N RollMight Have Been Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensFilmWishBitsMinutesLittle BitCould Have BeenSpectatorsGood Films Author:Guy Jenkin
“When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.” IfsWritingKindHas BeensSometimesLastsCan DoChallengesBrainMinutesLet MeComplexesLast Minute Author:Glenn Close
“It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensFilmDiesStepsFansMinutesHorrorTwentiesScriptsObviousFactorsScareRubbishHorror FilmHorror Fans Author:Danny Dyer
“I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensShowsFiveMinutesCleanGladErasImpulseComedianTonightAffectedReally GreatCould Have BeenSitcom Author:Patton Oswalt
“I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.” IfsKnowsYearsKindPersonsHas BeensTwoHappensStuffReligiousStreetsMinutesCarCrossesReligious PersonStuff HappensClose Calls Author:Seth MacFarlane
“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.” HumansMayHas BeensTwoDiesMinutesStandardsSittingFunctionTheaterCeaseChairsFlourButtocks Author:Michael J. Nelson
“As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.” WayHas BeensMightHappensLife IsLeftWorryMinutesWasteCancerSurvivorMight Have BeenCancer Survivor Author:Shelley Hamlin
“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.” IfsYearsHas BeensMadeTwoPlayHappensLastsThreeCompanyMinutesFiguresSafeYears AgoConnectionsInstanceBrandsThree YearsBrand New Book:How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price
“The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country to the other within the space of minutes, crossing channels, crossing oceans, crossing continents. But still, we can't compete with the might and power and wealth of those who dominate, control, and own the means of the production of information today.” MeanHas BeensStillsCountryMightTodayWealthSpaceWonderMinutesInformationInternetOceanProductionsContinentsAcquisitionCrossingsInvaluable Author:Tariq Ali
“I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.” FirstsBelieveHas BeensMadeEndsKidsLastsFilmMinutesTenCamerasForgotten Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington
“You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldHas BeensStoriesWaitingMinutesSolitudeShould HaveSentencesBeing YourselfDancerShould Have BeenTap Dancers Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensImportantDifferentSchoolLife IsChurchPathMinutesExampleYouthCollegeSeriesWorkersDon't BelieveCriticalMinistersGraduatesSeniorProsperousCampusCongregationMarginalizedGraduate School Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.” YearsHas BeensDealsMinutesHardestBlindnessHardest Thing Author:Jennifer Rothschild