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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. If we've created a really juicy role, it just feels like a fantastic actor should be playing the part. If it's a long enough part, we consider anyone. If it's a single episode, we don't usually let a single actor on. Because that' s just stunting.
- Dining Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.
- Nov 07, 2020
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of how I feel, I always push through all of my workouts before I get ready for the game, because even though I might not like it then, even though I might be a little tired or fatigued, in the long run, it pays off.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two words: Kasim Sulton. I've been a Utopia fan for a long, long time, and Kasim's a pop hero of mine. I have to hold myself back from asking him a million Utopia questions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020