Quotes with takes

Quotes 101 till 120 of 377.

  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What's wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Duke Ellington I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
    Duke Ellington
    American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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  • Mark Twain I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Brooke Burke I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Walt Disney I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Aaliyah I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Bill Parcells I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Levant I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Leo Burnett I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Alan Dundes If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bear Bryant If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
    Bear Bryant
    American football player and coach (1913 - 1983)
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  • John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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