Long Quotes
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
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I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
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I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
