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"My word for someone who has a long list of things that have to be in place in order to be in love with someone is "lonely." Because very few people, if anyone, will fit that whole list. They might even seem to, but they're not going to. Most of us have lists that we can't fulfill ourselves and it also places a lot of pressure on the other person. Your partner is just a human being. They can't fulfill it all."
"Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future."
"I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct."
"Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?"
"The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished."
"For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress."
"You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me."
"What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul."
"Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time."
"Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there."
"The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off."
"Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people..."
"The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere."
"Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it."
"You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space."
"The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term."
"Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are."
"Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began."
"When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals."
"And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
