Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Albion W. Small Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Carolina Herrera Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Earl Wilson Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Ayn Rand Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Billie Holiday Money, you've got lots of friends
    Crowding round the door
    When you're gone, spending ends
    They don't come no more
    Rich relations give
    Crust of bread and such
    You can help yourself
    But don't take too much.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Sam Walton Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • J. S. Habgood Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • W. H. Auden Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Henry Miller Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • B. F. Skinner Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Timothy Leary My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Mae West My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bernard Tschumi My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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