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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
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did MTV so long because it's been really hard to find a place that has been able to keep my interests where I can do more than one beat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020