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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
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my cousins would lead me across the farm to the edge of the forest, each of us lugging a folding chair. There, in a scraggly bramble of wild blueberries, we would set them down a few yards apart, each in our own little patch.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
- Green Screen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it's so much more difficult.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020