- Long Time
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had in mind a long career.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
- Behavioural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020