Quotes with long-jump

Quotes 501 till 520 of 1185.

  • Mao Tse-Tung Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Mae West It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Antonia Fraser It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carolyn Chute It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Jerry Brown It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
    Jerry Brown
    American politician (1938 - )
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  • Charles M. Schultz It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Joe E. Lewis It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Bob Costas It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Edward Gibbon It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Malcolm X It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Mick Jagger It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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