- Humanity
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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.
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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
- Credited
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.
- Nov 07, 2020
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020