Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 3

• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Forgiveness, Heart, Long

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• I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

  Anne Hathaway

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Long, Parent

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• I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

  Ellie Goulding

  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Long, Negative, Way

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• You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Fighting, Winning, Nfl

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• Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Differences, Long

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Long, Sides

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  Jack Nicholson

  Long, Hollywood, Vote

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• One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

  Tove Jansson

  Girl, Summer, Morning

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• Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Games, Long, Ears

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• We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Mean, Eye

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 217), 1967.

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.

  Denis Johnson

  Cancer, Thinking, Long

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.54, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Long, Black

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, Reality, Long

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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  Carlos Santana

  Long, Language, Speak

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Long

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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  Pat Robertson

  Long, People, Devil

  "Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘Cursed’ By ‘Pact To The Devil’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Long, Dresses

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

  Anais Nin

  Boyfriend, Father, Long

  1944 Under a Glass Bell,'Birth'.

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• I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Adventure, Moon, Long

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 07, 2013.

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