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"She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it."
"I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato."
"Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul."
"I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba.""
"I'm focused on the music. I think, as long as I keep making music just because I like to make it, people are gonna like it. But if I start going after different aspects like money, blah blah blah, then I don't think people are gonna like it anymore."
"I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions."
"We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?"
"I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after."
"In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth."
"Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were."
"I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit."
"Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward."
"Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests."
"You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?"
"It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. —Boldred"
"If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!"
"Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it."
"My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK."
"When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit."
"When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds."
