Took Quotes

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What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the… — Paul Keating
She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in… — Christina Stead
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took… — Serena Williams
The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change. — Susan Powter
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers… — Russell Means
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and… — Richard M. Nixon
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of… — John McCain
Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. — Mark Cuban
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the… — Billy Joel
On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for… — David Suzuki
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because… — Matthew Henry
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade. — Joan Rivers
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker
My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me? — James Dobson
Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every… — Larry Flynt
I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still. — Lorenz Hart
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… — T.E. Lawrence
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ...… — Alicia Silverstone
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where… — Karen Duffy
I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying… — Kenneth Lay

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