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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Build Reputation Think Different
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Sorry Disposable Kids Fame
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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Witchcraft is when a 24-year-old girl who cannot jog for five minutes expects a 40-year-old man to last for an hour in action.

Witchcraft Five Jog Girl
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“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

MInutes Saves GIves Execusion
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.

Always Ball Between Defence
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact

Means Oppurtunities Positive Impact
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If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith Act Look Foolish
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At times, I didn't play, but I was still the best - that's how I saw it. If I get 15, 20 minutes, I will do what I have to do and make an impact.

Best Get How Impact
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
People Realise Immense Value
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Happen First Instant But
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Everyone Future Hour Minutes
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Announcement Danger Go Idea
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
30Minutes Being End Finished
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

Children Few Hug Minutes
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Consist Dam Day Every
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

About Bad Doing Experience
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

About Average Just Left
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

Good Show Exhausted Stage
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Basically Cream Eat Everything
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That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

Hurting Like Me Minutes
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Does Five Hours Minutes
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You have 1440 minutes each day to choose who and what gets your attention.

Each day Attention Who
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Doctor Minutes Live Faster
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

Should Take Fifteen Minutes
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When you're 2-0 down after 30 minutes, then you know it's going to be tough.

30 Minutes After Down Going
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

Announce Around Five Get
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Brave Braver Five He
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I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Drama Form Make Minutes
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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From the beginning of the year until now, God has been faithful to you. Why don't you take a few minutes to thank Him for His grace and favor?

Beginning Until now Faithful Grace and favor
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I never let people see me without makeup. And it's not an insecurity thing. The perk of being a girl is being able to wear makeup and dress up. It's another artistic outlet. And the 45 minutes it takes me to get ready... is very therapeutic for me. It's hard to start my day without that.

Able Another Artistic Being
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Leave Party Minutes Do
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Bob Did Dylan First
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

15Minutes Ability About Better
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

Again Calculator Fine Glasses
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

About All Day Being Brain
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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I really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty.

Always Athletic Blood Gets
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

About Because Discipline Great
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I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Bad Before Christmas Closing
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This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realize it can't be.

Great imperialistic World Believe Important thing
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