Quotes with minutes

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  • Billy Graham Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
    "The Genesis Principle of Leadership: Claiming and Cultivating Your Created Capacity" (2008)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henry Fielding He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
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  • Alanis Morissette I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Andy Warhol I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bethany Mota I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Bryan Callen I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Jim Carrey If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Mark Twain If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Andy Warhol In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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