Long Quotes - Page 18

• It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Italian, Hair, Surf

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• So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

  Sonia Johnson

  Real, Ignorance, Blow

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Years, People, Seven

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• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

  Chris Marker

  Betrayal, Long Ago, Gutenberg

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• I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

  Dave Pelzer

  Mistake, Believe, Ambition

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

  Ricky Ponting

  Couple, Player, Talking

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• But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Sympathy, Strong, Elude You

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• As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Dollars, Cost

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• When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Appreciation, Art, People

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• Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Regret, Musical, Pieces

  "Nobuo Part 2". Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Men, Temptation, Sin

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• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  Jack White

  Patience, Passion, Suffering

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• Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

  Bob Ross

  Talent, Pursuit, Interest

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• You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Hurt, Disappointment

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• People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Party, Common Sense

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• Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

  Teresa of Avila

  Hope, Soul, Watches

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• The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

  Jay Asher

  Sweet, Journey, Publication

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.290, Penguin

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• When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Hair, Shade, Sixteen

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• I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

  Tobey Maguire

  Discipline, Trying, Junk

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• I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be the second.

  Raha Moharrak

  Inspire, Care, Firsts

  "First Saudi woman summits Mount Everest" by Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Simple, Important, Fundamentals

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• No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

  John Newman

  Jobs, Drawing, Pieces

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• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

  Josiah Strong

  Race, Generations, Vigor

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• It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Thinking, People

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• As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

  Jack Kelly

  Stupidity, Greed, Cowardice

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