Long Quotes
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.
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Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?
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The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
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As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
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I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.
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I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.
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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
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Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
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A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.'
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
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The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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I want to feel sexy and pretty and young as long as I can.
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.
