Taking Quotes
5478 Taking quotes by 3781 unique authors
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I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over…
— Ridley Scott
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same…
— Lorrie Moore
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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance…
— Luce Irigaray
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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
— Luce Irigaray
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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
— Jack Kornfield
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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists.…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.
— Tony Adams
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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted…
— Sandy Koufax
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I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not…
— Susan Smith
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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
— Elon Musk
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or…
— David O. Russell
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I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have…
— Tony Abbott
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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just…
— Tony Abbott
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We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member…
— Marty Natalegawa
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Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that…
— Rupert Murdoch
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To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what…
— Rupert Murdoch
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I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded…
— Ben Fountain
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Arranging for and allowing ourselves to have fun is an important part of taking care of ourselves. It helps us stay healthy. It helps us work…
— Melody Beattie
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Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration
— Roger Staubach
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Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you…
— Ben Roethlisberger
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I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold up a minute,’…
— Joe Greene
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Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do…
— Jim Gerlach
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These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these…
— Kofi Annan
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Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life…
— Lauren Bush
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