Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Benjamin Franklin If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brooks Robinson If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
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  • Mohsin Hamid In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Barry Schwartz In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Halter In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Winston Churchill In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Theresa May In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
    (2005)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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