- Dress
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became easy.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the theater lies the power to stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have too long been denied.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020