Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Erma Bombeck Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Les Brown I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ronald Reagan I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
    Gridiron Club dinner (24 March 1984)
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
    News summaries (29 August 1955)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Audre Lorde I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anselm Kiefer I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Adam Clayton I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Agnes Macphail I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Tom Stoppard I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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