Minutes Quotes - Page 7

• If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Basketball, War, Army

  "Scouting for Sponsors, Pope-ophobia", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2005.

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• Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Jobs, Character, Guitar

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• Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Heartbeat

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• Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!

  Deborah Raney

  Heart, Miracle, Tears

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• I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

  Mark Frauenfelder

  Fun, Years, Drs

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• I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes.  Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  Noga Alon

  Science, Years, Radio

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Teacher, New York

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Integrity, Writing, People

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

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• George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

  Tom Petty

  Guy, Kind, Five

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• The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Clouds, Political

  Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 11, 2001.

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• I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

  Grover Norquist

  Exercise, Murder Mysteries, Car

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2004.

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• Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Hacking, Beloved

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• All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Hurt, Book

  "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Simple, Easy

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• First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

  Kristin Hunter

  Inspirational, Men, Two

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

  Joe Dumars

  Inspirational, Basketball, Thinking

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• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

  Rod Stewart

  Birthday, Age, Half

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• In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Opportunity, Naps

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• Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Rain, Taken

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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