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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things - play 'Saturday Night Live,' make a movie. I want a lot of things, but one of my deepest wishes would be to headline - and sell out - Red Rocks.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
- Love
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There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
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- Nov 07, 2020