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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

Success, Succeed, Knowing

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
Christina Ricci

Time, Great, Character

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
Christina Ricci

Hope, Tell, Ability

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks

Age, Time, History

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
Tom Hanks

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
Charles Babbage

Hopeless, Since, Race

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Waiting, Around

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.
Howard Dean

Care, President, Call

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud

Human, Try, Means

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.
Ani DiFranco

Work, Time, Good

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
Ron Fournier

Change, Nature, Against

But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of cheeseburgers all night long.
Diablo Cody

Greatest, Single, Night

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
Carly Fiorina

Together, Understand, Put

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
Carly Fiorina

Time, Money, Political

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
Mia Hamm

Good, Focus, Worry

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.
Mia Hamm

Time, Great, Keep

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas

Life, Down, Before

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beautiful, Nothing, Him

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
Michael Gove

Children, Parents, Mean

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Adam Yauch

Love, Women, Respect

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen

Struggle, Lost, After

I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?
Lindsay Lohan

Woman, Saying, Why

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana

Music, Time, Language

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock

Money, Science, Human

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Work, Time, Movies

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Marc Andreessen

I've been a golden boy for too long.
Rod Stewart

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.
Rod Stewart

Enough, Fashion, Keep

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett

Death, Enemy, Stand

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

Work, Single, Try

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