Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 15

• As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Simple, Opposites, Long

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

  Princess Diana

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Long

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• Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

  Ben Marcus

  Long, Suspense, Care

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.269, Vintage

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• I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

  Shannon Miller

  Running, Long, Marathon

  Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

  Wynonna Judd

  Awards, Long, Worry

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• You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

  Paul Heyman

  Morning, Fun, Mistake

  "The Rise & Fall of ECW". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

  Aldrich Ames

  Long, United States, Unions

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• I don’t care what people think…I learned a long time ago…I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience….and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself…and as long as I don’t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband…I’ll do my own thing. And if the public doesn’t like it, it’s their problem, not mine.

  Iris Apfel

  Mother, Husband, Night

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• If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

  Shaun White

  Cereal, Snowboarding, Long

  "Fitness Interview With Shaun White". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago.

  Kendall Jenner

  Long, Grew Up, Feels

  "Kendall Jenner Is Now A Wall Street Journal Magazine Columnist" By Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

  Peter Hain

  Taken, Long, Looks

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• When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

  Amy Clampitt

  Should Have, Long, Mad

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• Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

  Mario Lemieux

  Marijuana, Long, Smoking

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• I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Issues, Long, Red

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• I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Strong, Thinking, 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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• I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

  Patti LuPone

  Doors, Feet, Long

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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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• It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.

  Susan Rice

  Media, Long, Three

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

  Connie Brockway

  Running, Escaping, Long

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

  Hayden Christensen

  Country, Eight, Years

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• I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Long, Fiction

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• [Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

  Chamillionaire

  Years, Uprising, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Commitment, Thinking

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