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- Nov 07, 2020
Five-Minute Quotes
How little time it takes to change everything.
These five-minute quotes make the case that a short window can decide everything — a single Argument with an average voter, or one phone call that turns into a recruiting pitch.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
- Dissected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want, and it's quite difficult to find.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in 'Rocky IV' there are three montages with three five-minute songs, which is insane. You can't do that today.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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- Nov 07, 2020