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  • Al Goldstein When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Anthony Minghella When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Anthony Holden When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • James Joyce While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brett Hull You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Iain Banks You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
    Use of Weapons (1990) 237
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Bob Dylan Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Eli Stanley Jones Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Donald Trump Look, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our money, and on top of that they have loaned the money to us and we actually pay them interest now on money. We owe China and Japan each $1.4 trillion.
    The Economist
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Pablo Picasso What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Oscar Wilde Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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