Minutes Quotes - Page 27

• Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Perspective, Add

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• She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

  Yiyun Li

  Strong, Falling In Love, People

  Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.17, Random House

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• If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

  Bonnie Bedelia

  Mean, Italian, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Spring, Fall

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• I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

  Stephen Colbert

  Host, Producers, Accused

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• I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

  George Harrison

  Criminals, Crime, Heard

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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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• I pack every minute I can with something to do.

  Bryan Adams

  Packs, I Can

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• I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

  Colin Hay

  Dust, Years, Goes On

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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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• I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Talking, Causes

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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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• The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Animal, Stories, Fables

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• From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

  Helena Christensen

  Thinking, Bed, Wake Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Two, Interesting, Doe

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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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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• Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

  Brenda Fassie

  Stars, Fans, Begging

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• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  Vincent Cassel

  Discreet

  "Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Gone, Levels, May

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• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  Ed Belfour

  Sports, Hero, Thinking

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• I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

  Katy B

  Thinking, People, Want

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• I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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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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• I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

  Eliza Coupe

  Kids, Play, Piano

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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