- Queen
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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
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn't come from stock that placed any importance on the toothbrush. But a couple of girls I met changed that. And I would do anything to get a girl to pay attention to me long enough that I could feel good about myself.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I thought the radio wanted from me. They weren't my best records by any stretch of the imagination. It didn't take me too long to figure out, 'Whoa, back up, dude. Just go back to following your heart, and it will all be OK.'
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long been regarded as our nation's premier federal investigative agency.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood went on far too long.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020