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I really feel he did pass away for a couple of seconds, i really do. – Barb Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’d love a world in which customers can get the quality of Night Sight without needing to hold still for a few seconds. – Alex Schiffhauer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Everything happened in like five seconds. It came – boom, you could hear a lot of commotion and stuff. … I go outside, and it is crazy. People had blood all over their faces. … I’m just thankful that I’m alive. – Stephen Swofford/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/AP William Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It feels indulgent to say that, but I say it humbly, it’s what athletes call ‘The Zone,’ it’s a real thing. And sometimes we only feel it in the 20 seconds when we first get in the shower. – Jason Sudeikis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
London has stood with Kyiv since day one, since the first seconds and minutes of the full-scale war. Great Britain, you extended your helping hand when the world had not yet come to understand how to react. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are little vibrations for three seconds on, three seconds off. – Cathy Collis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nail art stickers are the easiest way to get perfect nail art in seconds, we like sticking them on 24 hours after painting. – Van Iderstine	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I can be in a car with a client when they ask me what their mortgage payments might be, i can ask ChatGPT what a mortgage payment would be on a $ 14 million purchase at a 7.2 % interest rate advertised over 25 years with two origination points at closing, and in two seconds, it gives me that information. Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT also explains how Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT got the answer. Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT’s amazing. – Frank Trelles	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While I wish we could go back to talking about minutes to midnight instead of seconds, unfortunately that no longer reflects reality. – Eryn MacDonald	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We were watching it. We had watched for just a few seconds and then it got cut. We did not think much about it. – Arman Ansari	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In fact, our research shows it takes 25 minutes, 26 seconds, before we go back to the original working sphere, or project. – Gloria Mark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In 2004, we measured the average attention on a screen to be 2 ½ minutes, some years later, we found attention spans to be about 75 seconds. Now we find people can only pay attention to one screen for an average of 47 seconds. – Gloria Mark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now I can’t chase them around for more than 30 seconds, and then my heart starts pounding like it’s coming out of my chest. And then if I keep going, I’ll get shocked by my defibrillator. – Patrick Holland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Loss befalls us all ; loss is half the human story, mostly, we experience moments of joy and transcendence a couple of seconds after they have already begun to fade, and our knowledge of such exalted states consists largely of their existence being held in memory. Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too. – Emma Straub	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We built the two white solid rocket boosters and provide about 75% of the launch thrust of the vehicle, it's an incredible amount of power for that first 2 minutes and 6 seconds or so to get the vehicle out of the thicker part of the atmosphere and send it on its way to the moon. – Doug Hurley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He came in the left side and leapt across the stage and just lunged at him. In, I don't know, two seconds he was across that stage. – Joyce Lussier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Seconds later the ground just dropped, something that looked like a giant sinkhole, i saw two people ... two people were missing. One who we could not locate, and one could be seen among the rubbles from above. My first instinct was to try and get inside ... but there was no option to go inside. So they called the rescue services. – Aviv Bublil	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This young man, Greenwood's good Samaritan, acted within seconds, stopping Douglas Sapirman and saving countless lives, our city, our community and our state is grateful for his heroism in this situation. – Mark Myers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Track and field is so difficult because you train the whole year for one competition that lasts 12, 13 seconds and that's that, i’ll learn from it, and I’ll make sure I just react not as fast next time. – Devon Allen	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If someone can not do the 10 seconds and is worried, they should reflect on their own health risks, they could try to make positive lifestyle changes such as walking more, eating less if they realize they could do better -- most underestimate importance of lifestyle to health. – Naveed Sattar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have six f---ing minutes. We have 30 seconds of a song, and if we take a minute, that’s it, we’ve got five left, but, there’s got to be certain songs that we sing, though. We have to have our singing moments. It’s not going to be a dance f---ing revue. We have to sing our message. – Jennifer Lopez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The plane looked to be in one piece when it nosedived. Within seconds, it crashed. – Chen Weihao	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Eliza does not have any teeth, so she basically gummed at it for like maybe 30 seconds, then she was disinterested. – Katie Harley -LRB- right -RRB-	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values. – Medaria Arradondo	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I really feel he did pass away for a couple of seconds, i really do.

– Barb Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’d love a world in which customers can get the quality of Night Sight without needing to hold still for a few seconds.

– Alex Schiffhauer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everything happened in like five seconds. It came – boom, you could hear a lot of commotion and stuff. … I go outside, and it is crazy. People had blood all over their faces. … I’m just thankful that I’m alive.

– Stephen Swofford/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/AP William Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It feels indulgent to say that, but I say it humbly, it’s what athletes call ‘The Zone,’ it’s a real thing. And sometimes we only feel it in the 20 seconds when we first get in the shower.

– Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

London has stood with Kyiv since day one, since the first seconds and minutes of the full-scale war. Great Britain, you extended your helping hand when the world had not yet come to understand how to react.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are little vibrations for three seconds on, three seconds off.

– Cathy Collis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nail art stickers are the easiest way to get perfect nail art in seconds, we like sticking them on 24 hours after painting.

– Van Iderstine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can be in a car with a client when they ask me what their mortgage payments might be, i can ask ChatGPT what a mortgage payment would be on a $ 14 million purchase at a 7.2 % interest rate advertised over 25 years with two origination points at closing, and in two seconds, it gives me that information. Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT also explains how Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT got the answer. Pennsylvania Mark Makela/Getty Images/FILE ChatGPT’s amazing.

– Frank Trelles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While I wish we could go back to talking about minutes to midnight instead of seconds, unfortunately that no longer reflects reality.

– Eryn MacDonald

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were watching it. We had watched for just a few seconds and then it got cut. We did not think much about it.

– Arman Ansari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In fact, our research shows it takes 25 minutes, 26 seconds, before we go back to the original working sphere, or project.

– Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In 2004, we measured the average attention on a screen to be 2 ½ minutes, some years later, we found attention spans to be about 75 seconds. Now we find people can only pay attention to one screen for an average of 47 seconds.

– Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now I can’t chase them around for more than 30 seconds, and then my heart starts pounding like it’s coming out of my chest. And then if I keep going, I’ll get shocked by my defibrillator.

– Patrick Holland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Loss befalls us all ; loss is half the human story, mostly, we experience moments of joy and transcendence a couple of seconds after they have already begun to fade, and our knowledge of such exalted states consists largely of their existence being held in memory. Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too.

– Emma Straub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We built the two white solid rocket boosters and provide about 75% of the launch thrust of the vehicle, it's an incredible amount of power for that first 2 minutes and 6 seconds or so to get the vehicle out of the thicker part of the atmosphere and send it on its way to the moon.

– Doug Hurley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He came in the left side and leapt across the stage and just lunged at him. In, I don't know, two seconds he was across that stage.

– Joyce Lussier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Seconds later the ground just dropped, something that looked like a giant sinkhole, i saw two people ... two people were missing. One who we could not locate, and one could be seen among the rubbles from above. My first instinct was to try and get inside ... but there was no option to go inside. So they called the rescue services.

– Aviv Bublil

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This young man, Greenwood's good Samaritan, acted within seconds, stopping Douglas Sapirman and saving countless lives, our city, our community and our state is grateful for his heroism in this situation.

– Mark Myers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Track and field is so difficult because you train the whole year for one competition that lasts 12, 13 seconds and that's that, i’ll learn from it, and I’ll make sure I just react not as fast next time.

– Devon Allen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If someone can not do the 10 seconds and is worried, they should reflect on their own health risks, they could try to make positive lifestyle changes such as walking more, eating less if they realize they could do better -- most underestimate importance of lifestyle to health.

– Naveed Sattar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have six f---ing minutes. We have 30 seconds of a song, and if we take a minute, that’s it, we’ve got five left, but, there’s got to be certain songs that we sing, though. We have to have our singing moments. It’s not going to be a dance f---ing revue. We have to sing our message.

– Jennifer Lopez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The plane looked to be in one piece when it nosedived. Within seconds, it crashed.

– Chen Weihao

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Eliza does not have any teeth, so she basically gummed at it for like maybe 30 seconds, then she was disinterested.

– Katie Harley -LRB- right -RRB-

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.

– Medaria Arradondo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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