Quotes with takes

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  • Antoine Fuqua The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Allen Klein The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  •  Vikram Seth The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian poet and novelist (1952 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Philip K. Dick The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Abu Sa'id The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.
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  • Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Antony Jay The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Blaise Pascal The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • William Makepeace Thackeray There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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  • Max L. Lucado There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
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  • Anna Quindlen There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bridgit Mendler There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Albert Camus There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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