Seconds Quotes - Page 24

• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughing, Comedian, Fifteen

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

  Nicolas Cage

  Adventure, Air, Would Be

  "Berlin Interview: Nicolas Cage Explains Why ‘Wicker Man’ Is Misunderstood, His Career Choices & More". Interview with Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. February 20, 2013.

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• I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Taken, Grateful

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• Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

  Claire Danes

  Children, Three, World

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• Anytime that I have an impulse to pull out my phone and take a picture, especially of a landscape or something, if the first thing I do is reach for the phone, I actually force myself to sit there and at least wait thirty seconds before I actually grab my phone. I'm, like, "No, sit here for thirty seconds, and just see what you think about. What does this make you think about?"

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Thinking, Phones, Make You Think

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.

  Sonia Braga

  Beach, Queens, Character

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

  Asa Butterfield

  Proud, Alphabet, Type

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Space, Snow, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Asking, Dinner, Lasts

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• Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

  Larry Craig

  Gun, America, Use

  Congressional Record, Volume 146, Pt. 7, June 14, 2000.

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• Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Two, Hypocrisy

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• In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Song, Musical, Actors

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• I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Typewriters, Minutes

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

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• All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

  Peter Ustinov

  Boys, Men, Order

  "Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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• You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".

  Stephen Dewaele

  Song, Beach, Thinking

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

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• It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sarcastic, Sweet, Skills

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay”, p.40, Macmillan

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• It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Regret, Hours, Clock

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• And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

  Steven Morrissey

  Stories, Story Of My Life, Five

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• They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Three, Firsts

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• Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, I Miss You, Missing You

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• Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

  Mel Brooks

  Suicide, Three, Wanted

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.

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• If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.

  Alex Agase

  Monday, Play, Giving

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• Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

  Oswald Chambers

  Two, Worship, Difficult

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.177, Discovery House

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• Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

  Royce White

  Today, Tomorrow, Genuine

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• I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

  Brian F. O'Byrne

  Guy, Tvs, Speechless

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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