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• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

  Peg Bracken

  Tombstone, Long, People

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.

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• It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

  Oswald Chambers

  Minutes, Mould, Five

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.32, Discovery House

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• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  Urs Fischer

  Years, Minutes, Feels

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• If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Taken, Albums, Records

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• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Years, Want

  "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  Daniel Ek

  Song, News, Matter

  "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sex, Cutting, Long

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• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Brother, Husband

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• I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.

  Greil Marcus

  Moving, Teaching, Mouths

  "Greil Marcus examines culture through prism of pop" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

  Alice James

  Believe, Twenties, Compliment

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Cry, Hours

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• Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

  Anton Chekhov

  Play, Theatre, Arms

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

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• If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Forever, Looks, May

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• Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

  Judith Weir

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

  Alice Walker

  Garden, Two, Hours

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

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• The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

  Emmet Fox

  Running, Law, Long

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• I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Sex, Night, Guy

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Oxygen

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• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  Rob Zombie

  Confusing, Littles, Freak

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beautiful, Flower, Moving

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

  Stephen Curry

  Nba Finals, Classic, Tough

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• I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Done, Accepting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

  Stephan Pastis

  Fall, Parks, Minutes

  "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2005.

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