Seconds Quotes - Page 34

• I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Father, Opportunity

  "The 55th Annual Academy Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1983.

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• Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Live Life, People

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• Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Tornadoes, Six

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• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  Antonio Damasio

  Pain, Compassion, Brain

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• What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

  Damian Kulash

  Eight, Air, People

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

  Mark Webber

  Dad, Race, Two

  "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Light, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Media, People, Age

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny to me.

  Phil Elvrum

  Fun, Mind, Three

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black. It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds - let alone 15 minutes - to decide what you think about it.

  Alan Palomo

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Hate, Boys

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• Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

  Mary Roach

  Disappear, Thirty, Graves

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.58, Oneworld Publications

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• For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Impossible, Inevitable

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1144, Random House

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• ••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Zero, Oxygen, Bird

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• Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

  John Lydon

  Love Is, Two, Mind

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• There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt, and five seconds later I fall asleep.

  Ira Kaplan

  Fall, Moments, That Moment

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Links, Hours, Chains

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• I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.

  Elana Meyers

  Unique, Skills, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My TWA enabled me to be done at the hair section much earlier than the other girls. I washed my hair and put some conditioner at home before heading to the Armory, where the show took place. The hairstylist basically only had to put some spray so that my TWA would be looking its best. It took the hairstylist literally 10 seconds.

  Maria Borges

  Girl, Home, Hair

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  Bernard Fanning

  New York, Cities, Two

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• I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Acting, Agents

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• I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?

  Ally Carter

  Fighting, Gun, Boys

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• Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

  Chris Cleave

  Decisions We Make, Splits, Life Is

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Curves, Rainbow

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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