- Duty
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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.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
- Fulcrum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iowa has long been heralded as a bulwark against the money and media that dominate the modern presidential race. Its caucus requires voters in every precinct to actually gather in a room, at one time, and listen to neighbors pitch their chosen candidates, before they are allowed to vote.
- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!
- Catalog
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- Nov 07, 2020
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
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- Nov 07, 2020