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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse of the sun, the return of Halley's Comet, and the first trip to the Moon. I've still never seen that eclipse, and Halley's comet was a disappointment, but my sense of wonder was diamond-bright on that July 20, 1969.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was doing. There was soul and grit in it that I think a kid from the suburbs really needed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’ve never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn’t write some cheaper song because people like that I’m depressed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
- Liverpool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully I will have a long career at Liverpool.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work hard on the precision of my long shots, but you can't plan it in games. Sometimes it all just opens up for you to give it a try.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
- Fountain Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020