- Never
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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up in didn't have television.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not the wealthy and well-connected who have run the show at the statehouse for far too long.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020