Long Quotes
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It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
John Jay Chapman
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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Robert Wyatt
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As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
Liya Kebede
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I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
Alan W. Livingston
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I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.
Vitalik Buterin
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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.
Dalai Lama
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As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............
Allen Iverson
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Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.
Alfred Austin
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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
John Lithgow
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Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They'll forgive you for pushing a policy they don't like as long as they believe you're doing it because you genuinely believe it's what's best for the country.
Jason Kander
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I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
John Key
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I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
Alana Stewart
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Her washing ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close,And passed the long, long night away In darning ragged hose.But when the sun in all its state Illumed the Eastern skies,She passed about the kitchen grate And went to making pies.
Phoebe Cary
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Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.
Marianne Williamson
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We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.
Doug Ducey
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It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.
Rutger Hauer
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And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
William Wordsworth
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People think it's lame to be young, but it's not. And you only get to be young for so long.
AJ Michalka
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At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.
Jesse Livermore
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I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!
Sandra Cisneros
