"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."
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"I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound."
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"It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable."
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"Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy."
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"No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character."
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"What drives me is makin hits and keepin tha fans happy n wantin more. I can't stay put for long so I need to be workin and crankin out hits and projects. Touring. Music. TV. Films. Headphones. Football leagues. That's what keeps it movin. U aint gotta get ready when you stay ready."
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"A job is a short term solution to a long term problem"
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"Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started."
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"Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you."
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"So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire."
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"Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."
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"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One."
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"I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff."
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"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground."
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"But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now."
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"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."
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"The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets."
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"In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!"
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"Short cuts make long delays."
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"And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time."
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