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“I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.”

Joy Too Much Ten Lifetime Chosen Teeth Seconds Decay Hassle

Author:Jon Stewart

“Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.”

Men Firsts Made Sometimes Artist Century Tears Laughter Originals Take Me Seconds Bats 20th Century Charlie Violin Chaplin Funny Men

Author:Emo Philips

“The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.”

House Hours Watches Break Audience Streets Crime Towns Neighborhood Seconds

Author:Carrot Top

“I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”

Able Remember Boys Phones Broke Seconds Broke Up

Author:Taylor Swift

“Casting is really weird. Honestly, when Alan Ruck's name came up - and I've worked with Alan before - I went, "Yes, he's perfect." He came in and read for us, which was really sweet of him because he didn't have to, and he nailed it in seconds. We knew exactly who we had. That stuff is really good and fun.”

Names Fun Stuff Perfect Sweet Honestly Seconds Casting Really Weird Really Sweet

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.”

Thinking Knows Men Said Sex Scientist Bunch Seconds Meaningless

Author:Norm MacDonald

“You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.”

Giving Should Two Next Waiting Audience Forever Goes On Jokes Seconds The Next One

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“Two seconds are a thousand years.”

Years Two Thousand Seconds Thousand Years

Book:Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait

Source: Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait

“They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.”

Men Shame Seconds

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“I have pictures of my daughter, in the hospital, at three seconds, six seconds, nine seconds, and then fifteen seconds, 'cause dumbass couldn't get the camera ready fast enough. Yeah, ha ha ha. She wrote that in the photo album.”

Enough Three Causes Ready Six Daughter Cameras Yeah Albums Nine My Daughter Hospitals Seconds Fifteen Dumbasses

Author:Christopher Titus

“Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.”

Broken News My Family Busy Hey Extras Seconds Bad News

Author:Christopher Titus

“[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.”

Seconds Annoying

Author:Luis von Ahn

“When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.”

Knows Want Two Reason Talking News Mouths Hanging Out Seconds Rhyme

Author:Carlos Mencia

“I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.”

Knows Way Looks May Persons Two Character Bigs Guy Talking Who I Am Seconds Intimidating Big Guys

Author:Dave Bautista

“The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'”

Song Break Couple Rap Affected Seconds Thrillers

Author:Patrick Stump

“Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.”

Knows Persons Action America Dies Millions Minutes Ten Gun Available Our Society Seconds Fourteen

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.”

Ifs Want Giving Two Sound Creativity Records Minutes Thirty If I Could Seconds Snares

Author:Nikki Sixx

“My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.”

Years Past Hours Minutes Changed Seconds

Author:Julio Iglesias

“There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.”

Running Wide Seconds Yards Receiver Wide Receiver

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.”

Way Ability Moral Trouble Minutes Tragedy Response Dinner Limitation Perceive Distinction Cosmos Broads Seconds Engines Volume Cheese Epic Scope Shrinks Sauce Menus

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?”

“The first ads for medical marijuana have started airing on television in California. The ads are quite expensive. It costs a lot of money to buy 30 seconds during 'Spongebob Squarepants.'”

Firsts Television Cost Medical California Expensive Seconds Ads Marijuana Lots Of Money Medical Marijuana Spongebob Squarepants

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.”

Matter Character Voice Stage Pages Wounds Internals Plot Length Seconds Monologues

Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.”

People Believe Happens Next Chance Minutes Century Depends Entertainment Live Life Seconds Ninety

Author:Seth Godin

“Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.”

Should Moving Six Seconds Thrillers Tornadoes

Author:James Patterson

“When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!”

Walks Rooms Bird Window Zero Take Me Seconds Oxygen Living Room Chimneys

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.”

Ifs World Mind Made Mistake Late Losing Species Too Late Seconds Made A Mistake

Author:W. S. Merwin

“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.”

Thinking Children Moments Mother Three Courses Tree Childhood Scene My Favorite Seconds Tree Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Steps Progress Legs Decades Seconds Robots Difficult Problems Slow Progress

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables.”

Two Kids Simple Dinner Clock Seconds Vegetables Dip

Author:Andie MacDowell

“Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.”

Writing Years Firsts Ideas Shows Would Be Ten Demand Direct Paid Leaving No Idea Performing Seconds Cambridge Python Sold Out Monty Cheapskates

Author:Eric Idle

“You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.”

People Thinking Want Two Social Situation Too Much Subjects Seconds Email

Author:Biz Stone

“If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.”

“Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.”

Film Compliment Seconds

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.”

“Because if you look at the debates now, and I have answered it except for 90 seconds by and large it's been viewed as every debate I have had I have been among the best people. And in some cases people argue the best person in those debates. I have been asked questions you never could have anticipated.”

People Ifs Looks Persons Has Beens Cases Arguing Debate Seconds Best Person

Author:Marco Rubio

“It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.”

Body Results Emotional Response Seconds Physiological Emotional Response

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.”

People Feels Stills Seems Left Five Air Minutes Series Finals Eight Setting Video Flight Settings Planes Routine Seconds Gravity Five Minutes Comets

Author:Damian Kulash

“It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state.”

States Enough Winning Thirds Seconds Cruz Marcos

Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.”

“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.”

People Giving I Can Sometimes Feelings Light Actors Lines Honest Fronts Cry Incredibles Being Honest Seconds

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.”

People Want Age Three Social Media Pages Social Media Digital Seconds Load Tweet Hyper Safari

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.”

People Mean Song Easy Century Seconds Idols 21st Century Reducing Disposable American Idol

Author:Alan Light

“I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny to me.”

Mind Three Fun Seconds Tweet

Author:Phil Elvrum

“Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black. It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds - let alone 15 minutes - to decide what you think about it.”

People Thinking Opportunity Black Fans Minutes Internet Seconds Receptive Rebecca Choosy

Author:Alan Palomo

“People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.”

People Way Attention Five Minutes Huge Listening Window Patient Seconds Five Minutes

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.”

Different Hours Views Minutes Flow Series Clock Seconds Introducing Units Discreet Different Views

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.”

People Ifs Want Humans Persons Matter Character Stories Bigs Human Beings Roles Ten Deserve Passing Passings Serving Seconds Entity Passing Through

Author:Clive Owen

“When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.”

Minutes Gun Seconds Cop

Author:Clint Smith

“Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.”

Sometimes Would Be Decision Taken Minutes Understood Seconds Catastrophe Right Decision Make The Right Decision

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

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