- Dangerous
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy to be at City, and I would like to continue there for as long as possible. It obviously depends on my health, my quality on the pitch, and if the club want me to stay. I would like to be there until the end, but the Premier League is such a hard league to play in. It is much more physical than somewhere like La Liga, so it depends.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been strong. My mentality is just that way; that's why I've been around so long.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication.
- Geriatric
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
- Monument
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.
- Nov 07, 2020
I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020