Took Quotes

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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. — Victoria Beckham
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was… — Robert Benchley
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. — Ingrid Bergman
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. — Joe Biden
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught… — Lewis Black
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people -… — Lewis Black
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. — Sara Blakely
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took… — Mary J. Blige
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider… — Ben Affleck
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game… — Wade Boggs
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move… — Jo Brand
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be… — Richard Branson
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from… — John O. Brennan
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed… — Josh Brolin

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