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• I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, Interesting, Watches

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

  Tim Vine

  Couple, Blow, Tricks

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Tragedy, Machines

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• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doors, Talking, Sky

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Mean, Sea

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Leadership, Men

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

  Kristen Britain

  Perfect, Snowflake, Moments

  Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.429, Hachette UK

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• So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Past, Storm

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.74, Penguin

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• Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.

  Tina St. John

  Gun, Three, Magazines

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• And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again.

  James Dashner

  Hurt, Kissing, Confusion

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.416, Scholastic UK

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• I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

  Victor Pelevin

  Beautiful, World, Usual

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mother, Disease, Rooms

  "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.

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• If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Three, Culture

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.

  Ivan Klíma

  Book, Light, Literature

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Home

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• The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.

  Jay Leno

  Circles, Perfect, Events

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• I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

  J. J. Abrams

  Skills, People, Style

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

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• In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

  Howard Kurtz

  Age, Twelve, Online

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

  Bram Stoker

  Years, Acting, Actors

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.3929, Delphi Classics

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• I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Minutes

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• The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

  Gene Cernan

  Anchors, Two, Three

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• It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

  Elmore Leonard

  Romantic Love, Looks, Too Late

  "Out of Sight". Book by Elmore Leonard, 1996.

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• If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, People, Three

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, p. 123, 2011.

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