- Character
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It's been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private guy, so it's an adjustment for me, but a welcomed one, as long as the work remains the focus.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm saying is, 'Look, life is a long thing, and I don't need enemies. I need friends just like Donald Trump.'
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems really long. I don't know if there's enough action in it for them. And there's the whole black-and-white sequence in the beginning where she's on a farm. It takes a while to get to the colored part, and then it gets more exciting, and things start to happen.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
While you're pregnant, I suggest that you eat like you regularly do. Yes you can eat a little more, but eat healthier for as long as you can.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
- Chill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020