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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
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
- Nov 07, 2020
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all been a blessing, just being able to focus on my health and redouble the efforts on recovery. It's been a long path. I still have chronic pain.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never do a whole new set of new material. I do one new joke at a time, and I wedge it in between two good jokes. Or if it's a long story, I don't do it in L.A. or New York; I do it in Kansas and Omaha, all these places I'm going this weekend.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.
- Harbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020