- First Place
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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
- Contractors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They're just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been a fan of Holy Ghost! and think they've got the best dance grooves around.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020