Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day."
Elizabeth Holmes
Businesswoman
"I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed."
Horatio Nelson
Admiral
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
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"Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built."
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"The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work."
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"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
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"When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"
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"I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes."
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"A minute of success pays for years of failure."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!"
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"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
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"How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!"
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"The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead."
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"The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes"
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"I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks."
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"The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship."
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"He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life."
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"After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend"
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"I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace."
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