Longevity Quotes - Page 11

• Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

  Dan Harmon

  Ideas, People, Ego

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• I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

  Vir Das

  Thinking, Giving, Fans

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• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

  Leon Kass

  Past, Looks, Century

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• I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

  Johnny Mathis

  People, Lucky, Reason

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• Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Commitment, Successful, Imagination

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• Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

  Theda Skocpol

  Philosophy, Political, Action

  Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies (1985). “Bringing the State Back In”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

  Victoria Coren Mitchell

  Inspiration, Years, Laughing

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• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

  Graham Nash

  Song, Thinking, Lasting

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• Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  John Gabriel Stedman (1796). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...”, p.28

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• Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Journey, People, Privacy

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• I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  Source: www.ew.com

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• When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.

  Chuck D

  People, Aristocracy, Different

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

  Clint Eastwood

  Cowboy, San Francisco, Careers

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Keys, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

  Katy Butler

  Want, Break, Questioning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

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• Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Games, Training, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

  Christian Kane

  Oscars, Entertainment, Grammy

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• No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

  James Thurber

  Running, Women, Long

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• If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  George S. Patton

  Fear, War, Intelligent

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff (p. 96),

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• From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

  Don Marquis

  Philosophy, Wish, Patents

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• I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

  Michael Connelly

  Mistake, Book, Writing

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