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  • Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Ben Wheatley You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Mae West You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Ajay Devgan You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Aaron Stanford You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Brit Hume You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Minghella You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • James Baldwin You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • C. D. Andrews You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sam Levenson You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bjorn Borg You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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