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I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. -- Cat Deeley
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish. -- Aerin Lauder
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap. -- Bill Maher
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. -- Harvey Mackay
Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day. -- Kim Dickens
I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I'm not the most prompt, on-time person. -- Maxwell
When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute. -- Charisma Carpenter
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense. -- John Warner
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen. -- Amy Sedaris
I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining. -- Aaron Lazar
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that. -- Nina Arianda
There is always time for another last minute -- Terry Pratchett
I never program anything, I decide at the last minute. -- Franca Sozzani
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute. -- John Kessel
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. -- Rita Mae Brown
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We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute. -- Romario
I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it. -- Cub Swanson
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. -- Sam Ewing
Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United. -- Alan Brazil
Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. -- Frank McCourt
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. -- Rachilde
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. -- Janis Joplin
Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas. -- Albert Brooks
I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me. -- Waris Ahluwalia
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. -- James Hunter
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame. -- Brad Paisley
The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats? -- Jay Leno
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. -- Ronda Rousey
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? -- Chris Abani
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve. -- Joel Edgerton
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. -- Berenice Abbott
Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. -- Alberto Manguel
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook. -- Alice Waters
In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute. -- Terry Pratchett
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. -- Jon Anderson
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic. -- Bill Watterson
Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game. -- Michael Strahan
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. -- Stevie Wonder
I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them. -- Kevin Hart
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast. -- J. B. Smoove
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. -- Willard Spiegelman
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st. -- Carl Sagan
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. -- Arlo Guthrie
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. -- Arlo Guthrie
I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control. -- Karlie Kloss
If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute. -- Vashti Bunyan
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews. -- Martha Raddatz
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days -- Ayumi Hamasaki
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. -- Peter Quennell
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly. -- Jay Leno
Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else. -- John Robbins
The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat. -- Paul Ince
It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind. -- Alex Ferguson
It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured. -- Rachel Vincent
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. -- Noam Chomsky
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. -- Farley Mowat
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community. -- Rusty Schweickart
I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen. -- Mitch Hedberg
Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg. -- David Letterman
After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing. -- Sonia Rykiel
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. -- Ross Perot
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off. -- Gene Ween
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. -- Roger Bannister
I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile. -- Steven Tyler
Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn't remarkable, it's invisible. -- Seth

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