Long Time Quotes - Page 40

• I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

  Gene Barry

  Long, Guy, Actors

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• I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Air, Long

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• A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Long

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• Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

  Bill Walton

  Beautiful, Creativity, Nba

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• But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

  John McCain

  Believe, Expression, Long

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• If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Long, Ifs

  "Yayoi Kusama Birthday: The Polka Dot Queen Of Avant-Garde Art Turns 84", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Long, People

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• [T]hese people have shown a remarkable ability, ladies and gentlemen, to cross borders, boundaries - they get anywhere they want to go. They can do it without water for a long time. They don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do. So, our money, early money, is on the Hispanics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Water, Long, People

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• Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

  E. W. Howe

  Reading, Men, Long

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• If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

  Satchel Paige

  Cells, Years, Two

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• The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Long, Planets

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams. Chapter 6: "Rare, or Medium Rare?", 1990.

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• I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Sleep, Sunshine, Long

  Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Tired, Long, Feels

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1995). “Fathers and Sons”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Years, Long

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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, Wmd, Long

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• I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

  George Strait

  Long, Short Time

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• You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the only one we're going to have for a long time

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Space, Long

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• I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

  Bel Kaufman

  Inspiring, Long, Different

  "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Long, Waiting

  Cornelia Funke (2013). “The Thief Lord”, p.114, Chicken House

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• I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

  Ali Smith

  Clothes, Long, Important

  Ali Smith (2007). “Girl Meets Boy”, p.140, Canongate Books

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• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Mind

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• God is giving a plan I think to me that is not really a plan. The problem is that I think the plan that the Lord would have us follow is hard for people to understand. Because of my track record with you who have been here for a long time. Because of my track record with you, I beg of you to help me get this message out, and I beg of you to pray for clarity on my part.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Long, People

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• I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

  Brian De Palma

  Character, Long, Acting

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  Sam Mendes

  Beautiful, Character, Cutting

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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