- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, I have been overlooked. For too long, I have been disrespected. For too long, I had been too good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.
- She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020