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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I always laugh about is we tried for years to make successful television. And at the end of the day, we never had a show run as long as our run at Marvel.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there I basically got fired from.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.
- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'
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- Nov 07, 2020