- Model
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the national team, you never know how long you've got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I interned at the NFL Network while I was in college, but I have not had an internship or another job other than football in a very long time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how long you play this game, you struggle and your confidence will go here and there at times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020