- 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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
- Nov 07, 2020
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll date whoever is attractive, as long as it's a man. But I'll be like Katy Perry from time to time and kiss a girl.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020