Quotes with takes

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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Dennis Roch If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • Jay Levinson If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.
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  • Oscar Wilde If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joyce Chapman If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Willem De Kooning In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • James A. Froude In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Allen Klein In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • H. Manning It is no sign of intellectual greatness to hold other men cheaply. A great intellect takes for granted that other men are more or less like itself.
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Jean Baudrillard It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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