Long Quotes
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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I want to have a long career.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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How long have you been a black man?
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.
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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.
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It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
