Long Time Quotes - Page 19

• I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

  Patti Stanger

  Issues, Long, Abandonment

  "Patti Stanger, ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Star, Reveals Online Dating Pet Peeve" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

  Ringo Starr

  Long, Finding Yourself, Quests

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• Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dark, Thinking, Civilization

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.102, Vintage

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• I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Tools, Literature

  "Writers at Work". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

  John Sununu

  Men, Long, Old Man

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• Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Long, Records

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• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Long, Identity, Separation

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• So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

  Charlize Theron

  Play, Careers, Long

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• It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Long, Appreciate, Parent

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• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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• I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, Reality, Long

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• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Sep 07, 2016

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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Long, Silence

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• Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

  Lech Walesa

  Long, Dictator, Should

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• Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Long, Dancer

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

  Alice Walker

  Long, Shy, Ugly

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.55, The New Press

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• I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

  Dionne Warwick

  Careers, Icons, Long

  "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  James Whistler

  Art, Men, Long

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• If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

  Ron White

  Long, Looks, Common

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• I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

  Bradley Whitford

  Years, Talking, Long

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• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  Olivia Wilde

  Ideas, Long, Body Types

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