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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blake & Murphy didn't seem to appreciate who I was and what I was doing for them. After losing the NXT Tag Team Championship, they went on a long losing streak. They needed me yet just used me as an accessory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.
- Extricate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020