- 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
For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.
- Energy Sources
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
- Nov 07, 2020