- Me
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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game - straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever - to volunteer with us, as long as they have something of value to offer and they see the value in our community.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020