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There is always time for another last minute -- Terry Pratchett
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute. -- John Kessel
I never program anything, I decide at the last minute. -- Franca Sozzani
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
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. -- Sam Ewing
Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas. -- Albert Brooks
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. -- Janis Joplin
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. -- Rachilde
I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me. -- Waris Ahluwalia
Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats? -- Jay Leno
The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. -- James Hunter
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
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. -- Berenice Abbott
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute. -- M. Russell Ballard
Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute -- this time is no different. -- Bryant H. McGill
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. -- Hannah Arendt
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute. -- Jonathan Meades
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. -- Pam Brown
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit. -- Amy Sedaris
I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records. -- Imelda May
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute. -- Robert Capa
This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. -- Rick Mercer
Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music. -- James Bay
From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back. -- Robert Redford
At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us. -- Alex Ferguson
God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end. -- David Jeremiah
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I honestly just love Greek yogurt and honey, and berries, and some KIND granola or something because that's always something that I'm down to eat. But everything else, like anything savory just has to be ordered really last minute because I never know. -- Chrissy Teigen
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet. -- Hamilton Jordan
One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status. -- Julian Barnes
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away. -- Rick Mercer
I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute. -- Kate Voegele
I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . . -- Michelle Pfeiffer
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny. -- Charles Sumner
For me, when I did 'Thor,' they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent - and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day - never happened to me before. -- Rene Russo
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. -- Michael Douglas
I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done." -- Steven Wright
I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?' -- Alison Sweeney
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do. -- Russel Honore
The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories. -- Ruth Glick
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. -- Gene Fowler
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. -- Hedy Lamarr
Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight. -- Bernhard Langer
The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group. -- Guan Tianlang
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing. -- Mireille Mathieu
I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week. -- Caroll Spinney
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day. -- John Doolittle
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will. -- Dennis Wilson
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. -- Jerry Saltz
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody. -- John Podhoretz
My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded. -- Dikembe Mutombo
The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.' -- Asif Kapadia
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. -- Ang Lee
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. -- Chief Seattle
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory. -- Daniel Gilbert
I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. -- Cat Deeley
I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it. -- Cub Swanson
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
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish. -- Aerin Lauder
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. -- Frank McCourt
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame. -- Brad Paisley
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. -- Ronda Rousey
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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