- Me
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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
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like ones that pertain to the music they make. Talking Heads does that somehow. More often than not band names are just a quirky joke that doesn't really stay funny for very long. It's like Homer Simpson's barbershop quartet, the Be Sharps. At first you're like, 'That's funny!' Then you're like, 'It's not that funny.'
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020