- Matter
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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
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020