- I Love
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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
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some ballets you can do for a long time. With others, you have to know when to stop. Some are very destructive. Forsythe's choreography pushes dancers to the extreme. That's why it's best to vary. That way, you break your body a little bit in different places, but not a lot in one place.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never in the same place for too long, and you make the most amazing friends on one set, and then you go to another, and you start all over again, and it's lonely sometimes.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have long hair and get it done every two weeks, and it was never worth it to me. I would just walk out of the salon and put it in a ponytail anyway.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an avid 'Chitrahaar' and 'Superhit Muqqabala' watcher. We did not have cable TV for a long time, so that was my only source of entertainment growing up. My great fantasy was to be in 'Chitrahaar!'
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020