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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said for a long time that the governor and the mayors should be far more engaged in this conversation at the federal level. I mean, the consequences and the impact of the federal government's broken immigration policy do not land on the backs of the people in Washington. They just don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
- Glorification
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020