"Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough."
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"I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!""
"I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around."
"There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection."
"It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that."
"I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run."
"There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other."
"As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone."
"The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list."
"You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art."
"Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come."
"I can be really fast, but other people are in the race. So you've got to be able to maneuver around those guys, and you have to be a little more versatile out there on the ice. I bring my fitness that I gained from the long track over to here. Hopefully, I'll be able to put it to good use."
"I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner."
"A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment."
"The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me."
"Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost."
"Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening."
"If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over."
"Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat."
"I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long."