Long Quotes
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This necessary spending should not, however, jeopardize the president' long-term deficit-reduction goals.
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
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I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
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Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.
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I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
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Like untuned golden strings all women are,Which long time lie untouch'd, will harshly jar.Vessels of brass, oft handled, brightly shine.
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I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
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I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.
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The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
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As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
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At the end of the day, inflation has been below 2% for quite a long time, and to me, symmetry means getting somewhere above 2% inflation at some point in my Fed career.
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We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.
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I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
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I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.
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I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
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The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.
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You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
