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"There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience."
"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."
"Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please."
"I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore."
"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life."
"An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next."
"I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath."
"There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys."
"Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well."
"No one's selling records anymore, so there's no income you're being robbed of. I think that you should be in alignment with the world. The world is about sharing now, so as long as it's out there, it should be there. I think it's fine."
"I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning."
"The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself."
"I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run."
"I never had a long-term plan."
"And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible."
"I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month."
"All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist."
"To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen."
"Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'"
"I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that."
