Took Quotes

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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
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. — Robert Browning
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash… — James Buchan
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide. — Young Buck
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. — Madeleine Albright
In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the… — Julie Burchill
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the… — Edmund Burke
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. — John Burroughs
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to… — Kurt Busch
I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked. — Sophia Bush
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler

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