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• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.

  Angel Deradoorian

  Jobs, Long, People

  "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Entrepreneur, Misunderstood

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• When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

  David F. Swensen

  Long, Looks, Investing

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• A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Long, Sitting, Research

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• I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

  Heidi Ewing

  Thinking, Long, Sticks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

  Nicolas Cage

  Two, Australia, Long

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• I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2011.

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• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  Joe Rogan

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Long, Judging

  Senate Committee On The Judiciary Holds A Hearing On The Nomination Of Judge Sonia Sotomayor To Be An Associate Justice Of The U.S. Supreme Court, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Mirrors, Long, Gestalt

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• My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

  Donna Tartt

  Long, Together, Different

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• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  Emma Thompson

  Motherhood, Thinking, Best Effort

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Senior, Jobs

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• It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

  William Godwin

  Two, Long, Wish

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• He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Mistake, Simple

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• I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

  Reif Larsen

  Apology, Ideas, Long

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.317, Penguin

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• What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Struggle, Sunshine

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.185, Best Books on

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• We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time. Amnesty is not on the table period. There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of law and the idea that we're going to tell people that somehow or another that that's all forgiven is not going to happen. How we deal with them is a conversation. I don't know if I know all the answers. I want to talk to the American people.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Law, Ideas

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• After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  Long, China, Periods

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.

  Bernie Sanders

  Issues, Long, People

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Sen. Bernie Sanders On KFC's Colonel Sanders". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kccu.org. December 10, 2016.

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Issues, Long

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• Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Play, Long

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• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  Carla Gugino

  Ideas, Long, Sound

  "Carla Gugino on Taming Schmidt as 'New Girl's' Sexually Aggressive Guest Star". Interview with Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 13, 2012.

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