- Money
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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
- Heavyweight Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
That’s the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don’t have to believe you because you’re saying it. I’m not saying you’re a liar, I learned that long ago too. There’s a big difference between you’re a liar and I don’t believe you.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired to write because it was your job. That's how passion, creativity, and love gets killed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, well I've had a record deal for a long time so I'm kinda used to the cameras and the people, I'm used to dealing with peoples’ opinions.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.
- Front Page
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- Nov 07, 2020
With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020