Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Ezra Pound AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Kofi Annan As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
    Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations (2012)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Cal Thomas As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Barry McGee As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Peter Gabriel As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Jim Rohn Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Pope At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anna Held At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Angela Merkel At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Anthony Robbins Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Buddha Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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