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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin

Time, Real, Since

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott

Good, Great, Beautiful

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
Anne Lamott

Rather, Seriously, Line

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.
Kelly Clarkson

Put, Hair, Ready

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

Sleep, Sense, Often

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
Alan Rickman

Customers, Slapped, Paying

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery

Made, Before, Become

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
Elayne Boosler

Life, Live, Study

The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Philip James Bailey

Short, Days, Happier

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Pete Townshend

Four, Stone, Minutes

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
Jesse Jackson

Time, Both, Bread

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
Kesha

Show, Manner, Minutes

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Toni Morrison

Time, Job, Young

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
Sienna Miller

Great, Turn, Eye

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
Martha Plimpton

Women, Strong, Care

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland

Mind, Forgive, Whatever

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Paula Deen

After, Show, Married

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
David Brainerd

Time, God, Strength

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Clare Boothe Luce

Family, Women, Men

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott

Time, Women, Worth

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott

Time, Women, Men

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
Charles Edward Montague

Care, Credit, Limit

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Religion, Experience

The art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates

Life, Art, Short

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
Michael Bloomberg

Confidence, Remember, Short

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
Emma Watson

Game, Hockey, Lose

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Walter Bagehot

Wish, Wrong, Conscience

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.
Steven Gerrard

Win, Matter, Goals

Actor's life is very long.
Jackie Chan

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
Morgan Freeman

Work, Time, Movies

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