Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1268.

  • Don DeLillo That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
    White Noise (2011) 276
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • André Gide The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Ben Okri The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • John Lennon The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • B. B. King The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bob Newhart The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Billy Graham The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Oprah Winfrey The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Cal Hubbard The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Adler The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • William O. Douglas The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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