- Mind
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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
- Decorator
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.
- Gap
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long to get back into theater.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you play this game long enough, you're going to get your tail kicked at least once.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we keep winning, that's all it's about. But it's evident I do need the ball.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never forget your iPod and dvd player during long trips.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class both on the pitch and outside. Nobody had his right foot. I would love to speak with him, but in Spanish because I don't speak English.
- Objectives
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- Nov 07, 2020