Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 9

• A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

  George V. Higgins

  Silly, Writing, Knowing

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• DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Land, Long, Battle

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• Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

  George Pope Morris

  Time, Lakes, Long

  George Pope Morris, Horace Binney Wallace, Maria Edgeworth (1860). “Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.140

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• Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

  Mario Lemieux

  Marijuana, Long, Smoking

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• 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

  Seth Godin

  Long, Why Not, Mediocrity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.31, Penguin

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• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

  Warren Buffett

  Gratitude, Grateful, Long

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• I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

  Eric Avery

  Rocks, Long, Guy

  "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.

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• I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

  Marion Cotillard

  Piano, Long, Lessons

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

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• When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

  Stephen Chow

  Movie, Moving, Color

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

  Jack Dorsey

  Reality, Cities, Long

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• My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes

  Les Paul

  Long, Guy, Mind

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• I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Thinking, Long

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

  Johan Santana

  Thinking, Long, Tough Times

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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

  Michael Easton

  Character, Years, Long

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• I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

  Jody Watley

  Teenager, Real, Artist

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• In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

  Dennis Miller

  Years, Ice, Long

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• You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

  Eric Carle

  Distance, Book, Taken

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• A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Average, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.115, 谷月社

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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Holiday, Long, Celebrate Life

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• Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

  Lauren Graham

  Moving, Thinking, Long

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• Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

  George Harrison

  Long, Income, Politics

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• Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

  Marvin Gaye

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Song: Wholy Holy

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• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  David Nail

  Country, Song, Long

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