- 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
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.
- Good Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is every time I go to a show, that night or the next morning I write it down in the gig log. Sometimes they're very scant, sometimes they're very long.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020