#length

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#contract #fickle #good #i #length

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#being #defends #itself #length #read

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links. ↗

— Edmund Gunter

#consisting #iron #length #links #made

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#appeal #commons #get #govern #government

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

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