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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets' lives at risk.
- Classified Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.
- Enough People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advocates of a tax overhaul often point to the 1986 act as a model for a comprehensive approach that ushered in a long period of economic growth.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I'm not supposed to and didn't have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020