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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
- Health Care System
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I not been in a relationship, I would have no issues falling in love with a midget. I wouldn't mind as long as she loves me and takes care of me and my family.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I bat well and as long as contribute to the team's win, I will be happy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020