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"I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith."
"I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt."
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then."
"I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it."
"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."
"Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is."
"There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward."
"If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run."
"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished"
"You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts."
"All would live long, but none would be old."
"In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline"
"Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long."
"I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other."
"It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism."
"Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion."
"Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought."
"My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us."
"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
