Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Robert Frost A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Billy Eichner A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ben Carson A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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  • Ramsey Clark A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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  • Rex Steven Sikes A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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