- Me
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution, which is why the decision of granting tenure is a life long commitment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020