- People
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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
- Interior
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a very long piece of music recently, the 'Veil of the Temple,' which lasts about seven hours. It's really a kind of vigil. It takes place during the night, waiting for the resurrection of Christ.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020