Taking Quotes
5478 quotes by 3972 authors
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
— J. J. Abrams
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without…
— Mary Astell
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful…
— Chinua Achebe
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time…
— Margaret Atwood
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who…
— Teresa of Avila
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Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific…
— Bruce Babbitt
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My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high…
— Jensen Ackles
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking…
— Michael Badnarik
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am…
— Daniel Baldwin
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the…
— Christian Bale
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
— Honore de Balzac
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a…
— Drew Barrymore
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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in…
— Evan Bayh
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
— Beck
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