Seconds Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Who I Am, Talking

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

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• 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.'

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Couple, Rap

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• 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.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, America, Our Society

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Nikki Sixx

  Creativity, Two, Giving

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

  Julio Iglesias

  Past, Years, Hours

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Yards, Wide Receiver

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• 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.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Two, Giving, Waiting

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• 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.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Hate, Two, Three

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Infinite, Possibility, Infinite Possibilities

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• Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

  Alan Lightman

  Pain, Children, Voice

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.

  Louie Anderson

  Kids, Littles, Firsts

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

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• Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thirty, Tolerate, Amount

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• Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

  James Cook

  Prayer, Soul, Live Your Life

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• What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sorry, Thinking, Dating

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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.

  Jon Stewart

  Joy, Teeth, Decay

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• 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.

  Emo Philips

  Laughter, Artist, Men

  Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• 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.

  Carrot Top

  House, Towns, Watches

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• 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.

  Taylor Swift

  Boys, Phones, Able

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Sweet, Fun, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  W. S. Merwin

  Mistake, Mind, Too Late

  Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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