Long Time Quotes - Page 18

• I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

  Kid Rock

  Long, Good Times, Said

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2013

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• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Long

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• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Past, Long

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• For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Crazy, Long

  "Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another "Last Exorcism"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 28, 2013.

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• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Cabins, Popularity

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• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  Ja Rule

  Spiritual, Practice, Long

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

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Europe, Turkeys

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  Salman Rushdie

  God, Long, Stressed

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• For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

  Winona Ryder

  Moving, Long, People

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

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  Carlos Santana

  Long, Language, Speak

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

  Ricky Schroder

  Long, Way, Sometimes

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• I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

  Jill Scott

  Differences, Long, Adults

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

  Steven Seagal

  Powerful, Japan, Cia Agents

  "Steven Seagal Gets a Shot at Stardom". Interview with Patrick Goldstein, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 1988.

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• Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

  Maria Sharapova

  Russia, Talking, Long

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• Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

  William Shatner

  Long, Income, Captain Kirk

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• I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, Long, Feelings

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?

  Willow Shields

  True Friend, Years, Long

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

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• A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

  Mike Shinoda

  Long, Goal, Guy

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• Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Praying, Caliber

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• I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

  Patti Smith

  Long, Want, Sides

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  Zadie Smith

  Fall, Writing, Epic

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• If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

  Edward Snowden

  Attachment, Data, America

  The Guardian live Q&A, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Long, Directors

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• It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Long, Broken

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