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Lust is perplexing; in one moment, you crave everything, and in the next, you question why you desired what captivated you just a minute before.

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals.

Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had eight weeks over the summer and four weeks over the winter, so I would take those breaks and basically the minute the school would break up, I would be on a plane and then I would n’t land until the day before it started back up again.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m praying, I’m praying for day, at night every hour every minute every second, they’re going to try to eventually wake him up to see what his brain does. They say they can’t tell right now because he’s sedated.

Jessica Drain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will be a First Minister for all of Scotland. I will work every minute of every day to earn and to re-earn your respect and your trust.

Humza Yousaf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point during this show you will be awarded the Oscar for best actor and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech.

Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you put an accelerometer on a bearing and you’re monitoring the vibration levels, the minute a defect happens in the bearing, the accelerometer will sense an increase in vibration, and that could be, in many cases, up to 100,000 miles before the bearing actually fails.

Constantine Tarawneh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’ve made it pretty clear that we’re operating under a protest at the minute so we made a decision as a team that we were going to do this and show our solidarity together and this is one of the ways that we decided to do that.

Janine Beckie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everybody loved him the minute they met him and they really liked his family too.

Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going to pump any more water than we need to, because it’s an expense, we might have a well that can pump 1,000 gallons a minute, but that doesn’t mean we’re pumping it at 1,000 gallons a minute – we might be pumping it at 500 gallons a minute. We watch our water very closely.

Steve Schmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We only have a 10-minute window in which we cannot account for Nicola’s movements.

Lancashire Police Superintendent Sally Riley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Half of all blindness in the world is people who need a 10-minute surgery.

Jeff Levenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So if you go to one of these large conferences for earth scientists, routinely we'll be chatting over beers and things, and, you know, I'll ask folks like, 'you don't really believe that the planets gonna end in eight or 10 or 12 years or anything like that?' Of course not, i mean, I'll go to these talks by some of the most vocal climate alarmists out there and I notice that they're pushing a stroller with like a one or two-year-old in it. I'm like, wait a minute, do these people really believe that the planet is going to end in eight or 10 or 12 years? They clearly don't believe that.

Matthew Wielicki

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Poor sleep can also affect your motivation to exercise in the first place. You might find yourself dreading your normal workouts and hating every minute in the gym, which is not good for long-term adherence to a fitness plan.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just a 20-minute walk in nature can help significantly relax people, and we found it can help people produce significantly more ideas — it’s called divergent thinking.

Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bathing Culture is my go-to for a delicious, certified organic, biodegradable body wash that smells divine and leaves my skin supple and smooth, i stock up on the gallon jug about every nine months or so to refill my glass pump bottle, which is way more convenient than forgetting to order body wash at the last minute and panic buying something random from a bodega.

Hannah Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the minute we hit Afghanistan, we were told we were going into a really bad spot, zak got assigned, and he was a pretty hard charger, I mean he was excited and eager to help … We went through some pretty f**ked up stuff, and a lot of guys got hurt or wounded or injured or killed, and I don’t know why the f**k Zak would want to do that job. There’s no way we paid him enough to do it.

Trey Humphrey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I certainly don't remember that conversation that way, ican certainly assure you that Iwould have come forward ... Idon't want to get into private discussions that Ihad with our surrogates on the campaign, and, by the way, Idid run the full surrogate operations, so Ihad a lot of conversations with a lot of celebrities, a lot of elected officials, a lot of high wattage influencers every single day. I'm certainly not going to divulge those conversations on air, but Ialso don't recall every single minute of every conversation that I had.

Adrienne Elrod

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it’s a tool that we ought to have as member, it’s a safety valve that allows members to say, ‘Wait a minute. This agency isn’t working right and we think there’s a better way to do it.’.

Morgan Griffith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's historic, one minute we've been happy and the next( the line) feels like never ending.

Emma Hawkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of these families from Venezuela have traveled months on their feet and across the Rio Grande to get here. That is a treacherous trip. And imagine doing that with a three-year-old, i have a two-year-old and a five-year-old at home and the first family I met had a three-year-old girl who just looked around and had no understanding of what was happening. I needed to step away from the table for a minute. Her family was asking for resources. I asked the little girl what she had picked up from the tables. She said,' I just have Mami and Papi.'.

Jose Lopez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He does not have the constitutional authority to do this, he is relying on emergency powers because of COVID. So, wait a minute, you got a Ph.D. in gender studies five years ago and that has something to do with COVID. It is an abuse of power. It’s not constitutional.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was a moment( that) just came out of nowhere, i held it in one hand and it felt really comfortable and waggly. I was like' Wait a minute, let me try this.'.

Eliezer Paul-Gindiri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is important to emphasize that the study mainly shows modest but significant improvement in short-term memory, but does not show clear effects on long-term memory since the test was based on word recall only a minute or so after learning the words, cognitive experts would say what you recall from an hour ago is long-term memory.

Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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