- Space
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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
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need a long, cold winter.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020