- 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
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
- Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.
- Nov 07, 2020