Long Quotes
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
Laura Wade
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
Iris DeMent
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I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
Dorothy Day
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I just think that philanthropy is a fancy way to say that you care about others and that you want to serve others. And that's been a part of me for as long as I can remember.
Priscilla Chan
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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
Katie Aselton
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
Pamela Meyer
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.
Daniel Lubetzky
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme
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As long as Fox News continues to exist, you've got comedy.
Jason Jones
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I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.
Lynn Davies
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
Laura Linney
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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
Gary Weiss
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America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.
Peter T. King
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That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.
Phil Lord
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
Daniel Dae Kim
