- Keep Going
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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
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm enjoying playing. As long as that continues, I'll carry on playing as long as I can.
- Nov 07, 2020
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basketball can only go for so long.
- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.
- Great Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I'd built a great career over eight years, but it was a wake-up call. All too often we ignore those, forget that we don't know how long we're here for and that we need to make the most of every moment.
- Nov 07, 2020
No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.
- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago I learned how to shut my mouth, listen to my coaches and put trust in my coaches.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020