Really Long Quotes - Page 2

• One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what truth might be, and therefore begin to swallow whatever they're fed. I think that's something that the Chinese have learned very well. They've even managed to persuade quite large segments of the population that the martyrs of Tiananmen were actually an anti-national element. People don't view them as heroes, they see them as troublemakers. There you have a combination of censorship of truth creating a new truth, which is the lie, but it's not seen as such.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Hero, Thinking

  Source: pen.org

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• The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point size, but things like the size of the lower case letters as a proportion of the overall letter height, and line length. People simply can't read really small type set in really long lines.

  Michael Bierut

  Long, People, Focus

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can give yourself the permission to try and see things differently or create something original, even though you probably won't make anything original for a really long time.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that stretch out indefinitely into the future? I call this effort macrostrategy - that is, to think about the really big strategic situation for having a positive impact on the long-term future. There's the butterfly effect: A small change in an initial condition could have arbitrarily large consequences.

  Nick Bostrom

  Butterfly, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

  Kirstie Alley

  Long, Arms, Lasts

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• Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Snow, Important

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• 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 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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• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Writing, Filling Up

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• At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

  Amy Lee

  Order, Long, Needs

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• My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

  Dean Kamen

  Running, Years, Worry

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• One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Powerful, Long

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

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• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Long, Easy

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• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  Gail Collins

  Sports, Team, Long

  "The Power in a Photo". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2011.

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• There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

  Sandra Bullock

  Long, Female, Roles

  "McCarthy & Bullock talk 'Heat'". Interview with MSN Movies, entertaintastic.com.

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• We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Maturity, Long

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• Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Father, Feet, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.86, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

  John Cheever

  Country, Time, Long

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• You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Stupid, Writing

  "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

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• My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

  Taylor Momsen

  Fall, Mean, Long

  www.seventeen.com. January 27, 2010.

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• I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

  Amber Tamblyn

  Beach, Venice, Long

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• I never lived the life of 'Oh, you're so good-looking'. People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl-maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like, 'What do you want, Miss?' I was 10 or 11-the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.

  Bradley Cooper

  Girl, Mother, Coffee

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'

  Petra Kvitova

  Games, Long, Firsts

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

  Amanda Hocking

  Long, Forever, Knows

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