#minute

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#against #argument #average #best #conversation

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it. ↗

— Joe Biden

#answers #complicated #credit #give #going

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#away #choices #day #ethical #ethics

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#blue #company #first #i #jean

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#drop #i #i can #know #longevity

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#best #could #ever #game #i

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#best #china #effort #everyone #game

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#dozens #dress #fifteen #fifteen minutes #high

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#action #apparently #been #breaks #cards