- Opportunity
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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wild days are made up of wigs, a spray tan, nails, fashion, and looks… I feel the most beautiful when I’m getting into my mode and it can take a really long time, like 3 to 4 hours sometimes.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.
- Nov 07, 2020
It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
- Boxers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020