Quotes with do-take

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1256.

  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Brent Scowcroft To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Barnett Newman To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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  • Barney Frank Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • Hesiod Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Bill Bradley Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Blac Chyna Tyga takes King to school, I take him to school - we pretty much split our time with him down the middle. So, co-parenting isn't bad at all with Tyga.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Raymond Holliwell Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Bobby Vinton Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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