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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
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.
- Healthy Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
- Miserable
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- Nov 07, 2020