Long Quotes
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
Kathryn Harrison
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
Vasily Grossman
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
Zach Galifianakis
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
Nate Corddry
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The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ.
John Flavel
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
Little Richard
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
Samuel Larsen
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
Zach Anner
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There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.
Mark Walport
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White
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It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Walter Raleigh
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I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.
Garry Winogrand
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant
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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Martin Rees
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
Dan Buettner
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Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.
Klaus Lackner
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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.
Jacqueline Bisset
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With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth