Long Quotes
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
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Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
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We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
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Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.
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You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
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It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
