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“I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.”

Long Long Time Tough Backgrounds Long Time Ago Bothered

“I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.”

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.”

Should Mind Long Together Prayer Long Time Lifts Time Together Short Prayer

Author:Philip Neri

“Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!”

Long Difficult Cities Company Example Television Long Time Locals Versions Variety Long Time Ago Programmes Divergent Newcastle Subtitles

Author:Larry Trask

“When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.”

Ifs Wells Long Done Havens Ambition Long Time Realization

Author:Garrison Keillor

“When you hire a person to plan your wedding, this does not include securing the groom. Plan to get married on Friday the 13th. In years to come this will make it much easier to explain why things turned out badly. To look beautiful at your wedding, take time to plan it. It took me a long time to find two ugly bridesmaids and a frumpy little flower girl.”

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Author:Phyllis Diller

“For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.”

Long Grew Grew Up Long Time Drinking Comedian Smoking New Orleans Nightclubs

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.”

Long I Can Pay Acting Long Time Dues

Author:Bernie Mac

“I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.”

People Long Young Mines Long Time

Author:Janet Jackson

“I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.”

Long Made Stills Done Lines Trouble Long Time Spring Mouths Tongue Mud Thirsty Straight Lines

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Said Long Time Originals Timing Long Time Ago Cliche Timing Is Everything

Author:Demetri Martin

“I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.”

Long Matter Facts Born Long Time Indian Long Time Ago Matter Of Fact Rabbi

Author:Jack Benny

“Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.”

Long I Can Speak My Own Long Time Performances Comedian Oscars Long Time Ago Gave Up Worthiness

Author:Steve Martin

“I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.”

Want Wells Persons Long Happens Willing Mets Long Time Divorce Divorced Right Person

Author:Albert Brooks

“Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.”

Men May Mean Long Bed Long Time Bottles Engines Rockets Diesel Bottle Rocket

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it. I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here.”

“People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally.”

People Long Guy Levels Tvs Long Time Stress Killing Calm Honestly Who I Am Level Headed

Author:Tom Bergeron

“You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.”

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Author:Howard Dean

“Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.”

People Thinking Long Asks Son Long Time Staring

Author:Donald Glover

“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.”

Long I Can Remember Long Time Good Things Say Anything Long Time Ago

Author:Boris Johnson

“Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.”

Ifs Long Moments Life Is Gone Long Time Available

Author:George Lopez

“The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"”

Long Done Figures Long Time Why Not Erotic

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.”

Ifs Long Two Trump Republican Long Time Going Away Aspirin

Author:Mara Liasson

“I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.”

Thinking World Years Long Half Known Gratitude Long Time Catholic Grateful Esteem Pope Half A Year John Paul John Paul Ii Pope John Paul

Author:Chris Matthews

“I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.”

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Author:Kevin Durand

“I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.”

Littles Long Jobs Long Time Pressure Baggage

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.”

Writing Long Different Involved Long Time Studios Really Long Burlesque

Author:Steve Antin

“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.”

Thinking Years Long Happens Lasts Happened Minutes Changed Long Time Shots Finals Productions Things Happen Posts Destination Last Minute Final Destination Post Production

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I got really cool, like I was doing jumps. It got like, I felt really good, but then when I got out on gravel and fake snow and - it just kind of all went downhill. But I think it's still okay.”

Thinking Knows Feels Kind Long Stills Felt Long Time Okay Snow Fake Really Cool Manageable Gravel

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long time. You get to a place where you do your job and then you dust your hands off and say, "Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens." There's nothing I can do to affect it.”

Long Has Beens I Can Done Hands Happens Jobs Stars Can Do Acting Long Time Okay Dust Really Long

Author:Sam Huntington

“When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.”

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Author:Adam Young

“When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read my books because they share the same international aesthetic that I'm into and have been into for a long time. And it's multicultural.”

People Long Has Beens Book Country States United Talking United States Share Long Time International Latin Aesthetic Multicultural Afros

Author:Ishmael Reed

“It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.”

Needs Long Law Desire Three Degrees Worship Long Time Lawyer Satan Three Things Bachelors

Author:Craig Ferguson

“In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.”

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Author:Steve McClaren

“For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.”

Thinking Long Long Time Inadequacy

Author:Susan Meiselas

“My favorite song to write was a song called "Always" I wrote it about a girl who, at the time, I had feelings for her for a long time but she never really felt the same back. So it's one of my more personal songs and I'm very proud of it.”

Writing Long Feelings Song Girl Felt Proud Long Time My Favorite Favorite Song Feelings For Her

Author:Riker Lynch

“When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.”

Knows Long Long Time Machines Long Time Ago Time Machine

Author:Dana Gould

“I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.”

Knows Long Stills Important Bigs Together Long Time Important Things

Author:Dana Gould

“If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Long Mistake Worry Comedy Long Time Happenings Starting Things Happen If I Could Relax

Author:Christian Finnegan

“I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.”

Humans Long School Happiness Human Beings Known Long Time High School My Family Connections Fellows More Money Family And Friends Juniors True Happiness Junior High High School Junior

Author:Dat Phan

“Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.”

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Author:Godfrey

“My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Ends Stories Born Silence Honest Goodness Long Time Hundred Yeah Boards My Sister Cents Awkward Bats Long Time Ago Retarded Retard Lengthy

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.”

Wells Long Running Water Tvs Grew Grew Up Long Time Towns Canada Small Town Running Water

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.”

People Way Feels Firsts Wells Long Hard Play Wanted Player Long Time Instruments Expressive Saxophone Tenors

Author:Art Pepper

“Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.”

Thinking Want Looks Long Said Known Long Time Edges Portraits 80s Living On Profile Bowie High Profile Living On The Edge

Author:Greg Gorman

“I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.”

Want Long Care Form Simple Long Time Don't Care I Don't Care Long Time Ago

Author:Anders Petersen

“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.”

Long Has Beens Real Quality Watches Taken Photography Mass Long Time Features Phenomenon Quantity Sheer Outstanding

Author:Joachim Schmid

“[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.”

Long Process Painting Long Time Conscious Finals Photograph Where You Are Exposure Rapids Snapshots

Author:Thomas Struth

“Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.”

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Author:Francesca Woodman

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