- Great
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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
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Earth will be around for a long time before you have a funnier president than Obama. He has a stand-up's cadence and the awareness and ability to make jokes about himself before comedians can. That's a page almost every politician should try to take from his book.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
- Exchanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especially against civilians. We are well aware of the fact that the transformation of a society is a complex and generally long process, which rarely goes smoothly.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, it wasn't a kid dream, because my father was a cosmonaut, and I was able to see all pros and cons of this job, and when I was a kid, it was more minuses than plusses: always busy, studying all day long, exams.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020