Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 14

• I learned a long time ago that one way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in my mind. What I try to achieve during the season is a relaxed state of concentration. I simply try to cleanse my mind of the pressures that people are trying to heap on me.

  Brian Sipe

  Leadership, Sports, Long

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• If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

  Martin Seligman

  Long, Emotion, Wanted

  "Kim, Cosby and Kim: 2014’s Greatest Fails" By Steve Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Eliot Engel

  Brother, Moving, Discovery

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• I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

  Rick Wakeman

  Thinking, Long, Born

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I quit shoelaces a long time ago.

  Harry Styles

  Long, Quitting, Shoelaces

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2012

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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 began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Practice, Long, Liberty

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

  Robert Maxwell

  Believe, Scotch, Long

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• It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

  Evan Glodell

  Long, Able, Hacking

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

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• Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Hurt, Men, Hiking

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• The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them.

  Winsor McCay

  Wall, School, Kids

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• I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are significant, but I'd much rather have the right score on the board. At the end of the day, that's what we're worried about.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Long, The End Of The Day, Boards

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• Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

  Jim Lehrer

  Long, Kind, Debate

  "The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer". Interview with Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.

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• The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Years, White, Long

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• I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Reality, Long, Labyrinth

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