- Political
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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.
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- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
- Deep Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020