- 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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well.
- Bear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be English and long secretly for Prince Philip's heyday is, at least partly, to be wistful for a fairer, more meritocratic land where jobs were for life and social mobility was real.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
- Nov 07, 2020