Long Way Quotes - Page 14

• Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

  Rick Doblin

  Acceptance, Data, Medicine

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• Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule." However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Missing, Unhappy

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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• It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

  Danny Garcia

  Philadelphia, Long, World

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• Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Russia, Numbers

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• I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

  Charley Pride

  Long, Might, Way

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• When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

  Steve Martin

  Stars, Fall, Long

  Steve Martin (1997). “L.A. Story: And, Roxanne : Two Screenplays”

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• If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, Majority, Way

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• Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Dream, Long, People

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• Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of `long ways for marry as will', an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don't know.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Eye, Men, Long

  Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

  Kandyse McClure

  Moving, Home, Race

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Long, Way, Stills

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.

  Papa John Creach

  Fall, Long, Pennsylvania

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• Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

  Michael Palin

  Garden, Long, People

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• It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

  Dana Bash

  Country, Running, Long

  "McConnell: Race relations have 'gotten better' under Obama" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.

  Derek Taylor

  Long, Feelings, London

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• Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Strong, Heart, Hands

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• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices ... Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... Do something!

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, Long, People

  "Is This Really Goodbye?" by Ayelet Waldman, www.marieclaire.com. October 18, 2012.

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• The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Way, Unfortunate

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• It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

  Raymond Chandler

  Long, Gone, Way

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Stories and Early Novels”

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• Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

  Mark Batterson

  Years, Long, People

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• Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Long, Als

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• We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science.

  Liang Qichao

  Running, Fall, Technology

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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