Quotes with taken-for-granted

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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Adam Clayton I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • P. D. James I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Brock Lesnar I had the surgery, and it was removed, and I don't have any diverticulitis in me. It's gone. It has taken a number of years to feel good again.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arlen Specter I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
    Source: Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Winston Churchill I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Brooke Burke I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Dolly Parton I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Sheene I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
    Barry Sheene
    British professional motorcycle racer (1950 - 2003)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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