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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
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.
- Minimum Wage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
- All Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
- Bursts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
- Nov 07, 2020