Jeff Long Quotes
This is all floodplain, ... There's always a chance of flood, but I'm more concerned now with what happened in New Orleans.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
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This is all floodplain, ... There's always a chance of flood, but I'm more concerned now with what happened in New Orleans.
