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I kept recording, and to my amazement the 'dead' animal got to its feet and they both ran away, the animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them. – Bradley Ballantyne	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them. – Bradley Ballantyne	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
One had the other in a headlock — he was basically choking him in the box, it went on for maybe about six seconds. Then everyone realized they weren’t playing, and some of the other employees broke it up. – Lowell Hensley Jr.	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Within seconds of last year’s Pasta Pass sale beginning, our most enthusiastic fans clicked ‘purchase,’ becoming part of an exclusive club and the envy of pasta lovers everywhere, we know there are more fans than there were Pasta Passes. – Jose Duenas	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
She was stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately, Colleen kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon, that was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life. – Jessica Roman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He was immediately back to his good old self. After not even 30 seconds he was already cracking jokes, in this case he was full of praise for the assistance received overnight by one of the nurses in the intensive care unit. – Alberto Zangrillo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's very physical so in some ways it's like being an athlete because whatever they're going to do they're going to do every ten seconds, literally thousands and thousands if not millions of times so a lot of it has to do with being in control of their body and being able to be this close to people without actually touching them. – John Murdy	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The gulls had taken my ice-cream but had left me with the cone. I was scared that they would come back again, I was scared for my own safety. within seconds I was slapped with an 80 fine for littering.I was a tourist, I don’t live down there, I’m not aware of these things. He continued, If I had been aware I wouldn’t be walking around outside with an ice-cream. I was physically assaulted, and I dropped the cone because I was scared for my own safety if they came back. – Steve Higgins	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was a bit annoyed with The New Zealander last year because I didn't feel like I had raced to my best, knowing that I was only 0.3 second behind has a silver lining, because I knew that I could have been a couple of seconds faster. – The New Zealander	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
A couple officers drew their guns, went right at him and within two or three seconds we heard a gunshot. – Brett Polivka	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
He's just such a disaster, he's seconds away all the time from being the worst person ever, and he has this daughter that's literally propping him up and trying to help him be a good person. – Ryan Gosling	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We expect it had just happened, seconds before he crawled out, otherwise he would have bled out immediately. – Gary Gross	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think any jokes about rape, homophobia or Hitler is not a joke, i think that was a hard thing swallow in 30 seconds. Film festivals are such a beautiful, respectful festivals of film and artists and to have that, it felt like it wouldn’t have happened if it was in the 1940s. I can’t imagine Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby going out and doing that. It was more disappointing for the artists in the room that someone was going up there making jokes about something that wasn’t funny. – Blake Lively	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
But it wasn’t just Woody, he made three homophobic comments in a row. A Hitler joke. And a rape joke. It was all within 30 seconds … What on Earth was happening? It was really confusing. – Blake Lively	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Instead of just going right over the end… you stop right at the edge for about four seconds—and then you drop and it’s just pure weightlessness. – Adam Grignon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It was an instant regret, in those seconds after I jumped, I said to myself, ‘What have I just done? I don’t want to die. God, please save me!'. – Kevin Hines	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Literally seconds after he hits the ground, it’s pathetic. – Chris Hurley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I'm just happy to get another time under way, i’m exactly two seconds off the world record but that is my goal. – Le Clos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Within 25 seconds of arriving to my job, I was in a fight for my life, i’d probably rehearsed this exact same scenario 50 times in training. – Officer Darrin Wilson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
My wife and I both thought 'bomb'. We looked into each other's eyes, five or 10 seconds later, there was a major, major, major blast in close vicinity. It was massive. – Horst Pilger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Obama gave the terror bombing 51 seconds of his speech today in Havana. I thought the whole story of his presidency and its foreign policy was seen in the split screen, on one side, you had the video footage of the attack in Belgium. This is the real world. And on the other side was Obama, in the fantasy world he inhabits, where Cuba is of some geopolitical significance in his mind. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The little pocket knives I had collected over the years were all at home in the drawer with my pepper spray. I needed something I could pull in less than a second, i sewed a knife sheath into the layers of my sports bra. I put it back on and realized it worked wonderfully. My confidence was back. I was not trying to come up with something that would kill. Just something that would give me a few seconds to get away. – Jennifer Cutrona	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So the amount of warning time we might be talking about depends of course on where you are relative to the earthquake. We are talking about seconds, tens of seconds, best case scenario is a few minutes before and earthquake, tens of minutes potentially for tsunamis. – Richard Allen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
From many studies we know that mindfulness improves our attention to detail and ability to concentrate, research also shows that if you delay your decision-making by even just a few seconds, those decisions tend to be much more accurate. So mindfulness gives you the ability to pause and think things through more fully. – Hedy Kober	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I kept recording, and to my amazement the 'dead' animal got to its feet and they both ran away, the animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them.

– Bradley Ballantyne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them.

– Bradley Ballantyne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

One had the other in a headlock — he was basically choking him in the box, it went on for maybe about six seconds. Then everyone realized they weren’t playing, and some of the other employees broke it up.

– Lowell Hensley Jr.

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Within seconds of last year’s Pasta Pass sale beginning, our most enthusiastic fans clicked ‘purchase,’ becoming part of an exclusive club and the envy of pasta lovers everywhere, we know there are more fans than there were Pasta Passes.

– Jose Duenas

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She was stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately, Colleen kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon, that was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life.

– Jessica Roman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He was immediately back to his good old self. After not even 30 seconds he was already cracking jokes, in this case he was full of praise for the assistance received overnight by one of the nurses in the intensive care unit.

– Alberto Zangrillo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's very physical so in some ways it's like being an athlete because whatever they're going to do they're going to do every ten seconds, literally thousands and thousands if not millions of times so a lot of it has to do with being in control of their body and being able to be this close to people without actually touching them.

– John Murdy

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The gulls had taken my ice-cream but had left me with the cone. I was scared that they would come back again, I was scared for my own safety. within seconds I was slapped with an 80 fine for littering.I was a tourist, I don’t live down there, I’m not aware of these things. He continued, If I had been aware I wouldn’t be walking around outside with an ice-cream. I was physically assaulted, and I dropped the cone because I was scared for my own safety if they came back.

– Steve Higgins

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was a bit annoyed with The New Zealander last year because I didn't feel like I had raced to my best, knowing that I was only 0.3 second behind has a silver lining, because I knew that I could have been a couple of seconds faster.

– The New Zealander

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A couple officers drew their guns, went right at him and within two or three seconds we heard a gunshot.

– Brett Polivka

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He's just such a disaster, he's seconds away all the time from being the worst person ever, and he has this daughter that's literally propping him up and trying to help him be a good person.

– Ryan Gosling

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We expect it had just happened, seconds before he crawled out, otherwise he would have bled out immediately.

– Gary Gross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think any jokes about rape, homophobia or Hitler is not a joke, i think that was a hard thing swallow in 30 seconds. Film festivals are such a beautiful, respectful festivals of film and artists and to have that, it felt like it wouldn’t have happened if it was in the 1940s. I can’t imagine Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby going out and doing that. It was more disappointing for the artists in the room that someone was going up there making jokes about something that wasn’t funny.

– Blake Lively

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

But it wasn’t just Woody, he made three homophobic comments in a row. A Hitler joke. And a rape joke. It was all within 30 seconds … What on Earth was happening? It was really confusing.

– Blake Lively

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Instead of just going right over the end… you stop right at the edge for about four seconds—and then you drop and it’s just pure weightlessness.

– Adam Grignon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was an instant regret, in those seconds after I jumped, I said to myself, ‘What have I just done? I don’t want to die. God, please save me!'.

– Kevin Hines

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Literally seconds after he hits the ground, it’s pathetic.

– Chris Hurley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm just happy to get another time under way, i’m exactly two seconds off the world record but that is my goal.

– Le Clos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Within 25 seconds of arriving to my job, I was in a fight for my life, i’d probably rehearsed this exact same scenario 50 times in training.

– Officer Darrin Wilson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My wife and I both thought 'bomb'. We looked into each other's eyes, five or 10 seconds later, there was a major, major, major blast in close vicinity. It was massive.

– Horst Pilger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Obama gave the terror bombing 51 seconds of his speech today in Havana. I thought the whole story of his presidency and its foreign policy was seen in the split screen, on one side, you had the video footage of the attack in Belgium. This is the real world. And on the other side was Obama, in the fantasy world he inhabits, where Cuba is of some geopolitical significance in his mind.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The little pocket knives I had collected over the years were all at home in the drawer with my pepper spray. I needed something I could pull in less than a second, i sewed a knife sheath into the layers of my sports bra. I put it back on and realized it worked wonderfully. My confidence was back. I was not trying to come up with something that would kill. Just something that would give me a few seconds to get away.

– Jennifer Cutrona

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

So the amount of warning time we might be talking about depends of course on where you are relative to the earthquake. We are talking about seconds, tens of seconds, best case scenario is a few minutes before and earthquake, tens of minutes potentially for tsunamis.

– Richard Allen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From many studies we know that mindfulness improves our attention to detail and ability to concentrate, research also shows that if you delay your decision-making by even just a few seconds, those decisions tend to be much more accurate. So mindfulness gives you the ability to pause and think things through more fully.

– Hedy Kober

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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