The PROBLEM with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term VISION, and they FORGET that once you GET into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the OUTSIDER you claim you represent.

Reforms aimed at increasing an ECONOMY's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they REQUIRE eliminating protections for vested interests in the SHORT term for the sake of GREATER long-term prosperity.

Every relationship should EVENTUALLY become a long-term relationship. Any DIRECTOR that I MEET now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can CALL to do a PROJECT that I want or that I have.

By offering an education CENTERED on VALUES, the faculty in Catholic schools can CREATE an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared TOWARD LONG-TERM healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

Being a MIDDLE Eastern girl in America with a name no one could pronounce was not EASY, so I turned to make-up and cosmetics as a WAY to deal with my INSECURITIES, thus CREATING my long-term relationship with beauty.

Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have TERRIBLE problems with water and the ABILITY to produce food locally. I SUPPOSE it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional CONTROLS have decayed - for instance, lending standards.

In the EARLY 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very GOOD long-term projects, but projects that weren't GOING to pay off for FIVE or 10 or 20 years.

A more productive economy in the LONG term will BRING US HIGHER tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to GROW a balanced economy.

A president cannot grow a long-term LACK of TRUST in SOMEONE with whom they had full CONFIDENCE the DAY before.

I always had a LONG-TERM VIEW of going into politics, so I suppose I was always CAREFUL. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally QUITE conservative.

The PEOPLE who are fleeing SYRIA, they're the ONES who need to run the COUNTRY there long-term.

One thing about when I came back into DINOSAUR that was really cool was that pretty MUCH anybody that J. was WORKING with who had a long-term relationship with J. were PEOPLE I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

I've been in TWO long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing HEARTBREAK. It makes GOOD SONGS.

People can have a long-term LIFE PLAN only if they KNOW their PRIVATE property is SECURE.