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A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.
I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.
It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.
Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.
A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.
The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"
The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
I don't drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don't do nude covers. I don't have a 12-inch long you know what ... I am quite boring.
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say
They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?