Long Time Quotes - Page 15

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Long, Silence

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• Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

  Lech Walesa

  Long, Dictator, Should

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• Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Long, Dancer

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

  Alice Walker

  Long, Shy, Ugly

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.55, The New Press

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• I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

  Dionne Warwick

  Careers, Icons, Long

  "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  James Whistler

  Art, Men, Long

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• If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

  Ron White

  Long, Looks, Common

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• I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

  Bradley Whitford

  Years, Talking, Long

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• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  Olivia Wilde

  Ideas, Long, Body Types

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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'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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• I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

  Carnie Wilson

  Friendship, Years, Coping Mechanisms

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Britain And America

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• It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

  Steve Wozniak

  Change, Thinking, Long

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• No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

  Felix Dennis

  Girl, Long, Dresses

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• I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Irritation, Long

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• Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Girl, Dream

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago." Then what-?" Jayfeather began, but already Yellowfang's shape was beginning to fade, melting into the moonlight until she was gone. The moonlight abrubtly vanished, leaving Jayfeather in darkness as he woke from his dream. Mouse dung! Why can't any cat speak straight out?" he hissed

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Lying, Cat

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• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Long, Vengeance, Retribution

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

  Edith Wharton

  Long, Heaven, Century

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.11, VM eBooks

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• My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Struggle, Long

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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