Long Quotes
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.
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I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
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To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.
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In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.
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Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
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We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
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I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.
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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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Samia: I'm all the trouble you need. Do you know why I invited you here?Ginger: For the Brussels sprouts tartare?Samia: For the long, discreet tablecloths.
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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
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I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.
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We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.
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I don't mind how good or bad my partner is, as long as we have a lovely time.
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One errs as long as one strives.
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'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
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I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
