- My Life
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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how long anything is going to last, so I have to make sure I have something to do tomorrow.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
A week is a long time in politics.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
- Shadow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020