- Girl
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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to keep doing the voice, and I'll do it as long as I'm able and as long as Tony sells cereal.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Bring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
- Fellow Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020