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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather…

— Jackie Speier

I'm not trying to take on any title. I'm just trying to do my thing and be myself.

— Chase Elliott

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

— Mukesh Ambani

If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that's terrible, you start with a bad attitude.

— Manu Ginobili

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

— Mario Andretti

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a…

— Ashley Jones

This goes to all the individuals out there, be in control of your business don't let your business take control of you.

— Terry Funk

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

— Jessi Klein

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

— Anita Bryant

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it.…

— Spoken Reasons

If you want to do something about things, you've got to get into the corridors of power and take them on.

— Bez

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

— John Rhys-Davies

I've had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It's about having 'winner's luck.' I had winner's luck…

— Sergio Garcia

I always believed life is simple and you have to take it as it comes.

— Jagapathi Babu

When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing as a…

— Robin Marantz Henig

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me…

— James Blunt

I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and…

— Britt Robertson

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

— John Battelle

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries on Gorda. All told,…

— Christina Engela

Thankfully, hamstring injuries don't take that long to heal.

— Jimi Manuwa

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a…

— Vinny Guadagnino

People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

— Nathaniel Buzolic

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting…

— John McAfee

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

— Robert Zoellick

I don't take Mars One seriously at all.

— Andy Weir

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

— Mark Salling

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

You just always have to protect yourself. Try not to take any unnecessary hits.

— Deshaun Watson

There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.

— Jewel

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal'…

— Tom Verica

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent…

— Thomas Friedman

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will…

— Matthew McConaughey

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

— Nick Jonas

At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet…

— Giles Foden

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy…

— Dale Robertson

If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick…

— Chris Christie

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended…

— Michael Bond

In some instances, I don't care what people think. In other instances, I do - especially because of the stereotype. People take…

— Teri Polo