- Art
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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
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf will grow so long as it's fun.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.
- Eliminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.
- Corporate America
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- Nov 07, 2020
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020