- Me
- |
- 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
- Conscience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
- Destiny
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- Happy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
- Great Movie
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I've always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it's been the Internet.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm down for indefinitely chilling as long as I'm not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it's very difficult and you really have to consider what you're putting someone through.
- Haitian
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
- Black
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
- Guitar
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being promoted as a bubble-gum type artist that has one hit and it's all over is not something I want to do. I want a long career. I want to continue to play guitar and have as much guitar in there as possible in a commercial song without being too indulgent.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020