Quotes with do-take

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  • John Sculley People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
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  • J. G. Ballard People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Frank Romer People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
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  • George Orwell Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Robbins Personal power is the ability to take action.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Alain de Botton Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Anne Campbell Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • George Steiner Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Napoleon Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Carson Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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