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Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So,… — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes… — Danny Dyer Copy Share Image
Dedication and time management are two of the biggest things. I hate being late for anything. If anything, I prefer to be… — Liam Tancock Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many… — Eleanor Coppola Copy Share Image
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles,… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been… — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations… — Slash Copy Share Image
Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood.… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
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On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago… — Arthur J. Deikman Copy Share Image
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the… — Geoff Davis Copy Share Image
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds,… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
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I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we… — Jackie Stewart Copy Share Image
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