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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• Disfruto con esas pequeñas charlas que tienes cuando la gente se acerca a hablarte de tu trabajo. Sólo supone unos segundos de esfuerzo ser amable con esas personas, y estoy muy agradecido por las amables palabras que la gente se ha tomado la molestia de expresarme en persona.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Agradable, Tomado, Agradecido

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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

  Fuente: www.empireonline.com

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• La gente ha reaccionado a la duración de "Aquarius" de forma muy positiva. Por ejemplo, al principio, hay gente en un coche en la playa por la noche. Uno de los personajes dice: "Os voy a poner esta gran canción". Introduce una cinta de casete y escuchan unos 45 segundos de "Another One Bites the Dust" de Queen. Se les nota el placer en la cara, pero lleva su tiempo, y el público lo agradece.

  Sonia Braga

  Playa, Queens, Carácter

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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!

  Botones rojos

  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

  "Biografía/Citas personales". 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

  Niños, Hombres, Orden

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

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• Vas a un hotel de lujo y oyes una pista en la que alguien ha sampleado 30 segundos de una canción muy buena. Tu oído lo capta y te emocionas, pero luego se convierte en algo monótono. Lo del Buddha Bar me molesta. No necesito estar en una playa y escuchar estas cosas a través de pequeños altavoces, pero la gente cree que crea un "ambiente guay".

  Stephen Dewaele

  Canción, Playa, Pensamiento

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Entrevista con Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. 5 de enero de 2012.

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• Era desconcertante la forma en que podía pasar de la eficiencia fría al sarcasmo y a la dulzura en el espacio de treinta segundos. Me parecía muy manipuladora y controladora. Ponía a la otra persona constantemente en guardia. Y era muy intimidante, porque nunca sabías cuándo iba a estallar. Tomé nota mentalmente de que debía perfeccionar esas habilidades.

  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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• Ambas (Thalia y Hera) la miraron fijamente y, durante tres largos segundos, Piper no estuvo segura de cuál de las dos iba a matarla primero.

  Rick Riordan

  Largo, Tres, Primeros

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• La distancia nunca separa dos corazones que realmente se preocupan, porque nuestros recuerdos abarcan las millas y en segundos estamos allí. Pero cada vez que empiezo a sentirme triste porque te echo de menos, me recuerdo lo afortunada que soy de tener a alguien tan especial a quien echar de menos.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relación, Te Echo De Menos, 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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• Adora a Dios en las circunstancias difíciles, y cuando Él quiera, las alterará en dos segundos.

  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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