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• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  Andy Rooney

  Christmas, Art, Feelings

  Andy Rooney (2003). “Common Nonsense”, p.38, PublicAffairs

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• Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

  Murray Walker

  Numbers, Olympic Games, Rounds

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• Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.

  Alexis Carrel

  Cancer, Healing, Dark

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• I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Distance, Trying, Safe

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• In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Taken, Two, Views

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• You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

  Helen Hunt

  Thank You, Remember, Enjoy

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  Lou Holtz

  Differences, Sixty Minutes, Twenties

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• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.4

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• [Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to file. On the other hand, because space is infinite there will hopefully be more room for thoughtful pieces, longer pieces, the kind that a journalist wishes he or she could do but doesn't have the space.

  Russ Wilcox

  Thoughtful, Race, Hands

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Differences, Taste, Titles

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Distance, Stupid

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, House, Bottles

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th anniversary. I am in the fish station and after many mistakes, including cutting myself after 30 seconds in that kitchen, the chef said, "Make a Hollandaise sauce with 32 yolks." It takes me forever to separate the yolks from the whites, and I put them in a bowl and try to go close to the stove, but the stove is way too hot for me.

  Eric Ripert

  Mistake, Cutting, Paris

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Taken, Decision, Would Be

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Cop, Minutes

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• No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

  Clive Owen

  Character, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

  Paolo Giordano

  Choices, Made, Remains

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• No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Looks, Limits

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.125, Penguin

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• I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

  Burton Cummings

  Blogs, I Can

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• Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

  Bryan Cranston

  Giving, Missing, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Pavement, Assuming

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• If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Can Do Something, Can Do, Ifs

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