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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben E. King It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Bill Bailey It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Billy Rose It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
    Billy Rose
    Canadian curler (1899 - 1966)
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  • Branford Marsalis It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Casey Stengel It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Biz Stone It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bjork It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Edward Gardner It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
    Edward Gardner
    English conductor
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  • Audre Lorde It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It's the man who dares to take who is independent, not he who gives.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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