Quotes with long-standing

Quotes 401 till 420 of 1223.

  • Aileen Wuornos I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.
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  • Muhammad Ali I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bill Allred I saw a picture of Lou Reed and David Bowie standing together and it looked like an AD for jerky.
    Radio From Hell (December 4, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Angela Merkel I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Anais Nin I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Macbeth I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Stephen Hawking I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Salman Rushdie I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Joseph Heller I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Gloria Steinem I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Margaret Mitchell I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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