- Denounce
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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
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
- Heartbeats
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that Manti Te'o thought for a long time that he was dating, like, a fake girl and then that she died and did the tribute and the girl never existed. I mean inherently that's funny.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020