- Family
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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
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you’re keeping your body active though, it doesn’t have to be a long session at the gym to be effective.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I lived in my car.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020