- I Am
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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
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know how in football everything changes quickly. It doesn't take too long to lose one game.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to play as long as you can. The old, unwritten rule: If you make it to the NBA, you play as long as you can - and you play one more year.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
- Frighten
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- Nov 07, 2020
My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.
- Both Parties
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020