- Influence
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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
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch a lot of ESPN. I just kind of keep it on for long periods of time and watch guys yell at each other about sports things.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020