Took Quotes

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Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow. — Edwin Way Teale
Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took… — Yanni
There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need… — Wendelin Van Draanen
The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and… — Pattie Boyd
The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me. — Peter Cetera
His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but… — Rio Ferdinand
Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took… — Unknown Author
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. — Juan Manuel Fangio
It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took… — Gary Vaynerchuk
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state. — Hendrik Verwoerd
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The… — Tariq Ali
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying… — Jacque Fresco
If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go… — Jacque Fresco
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize — Michael M. Honda
Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed. — Bill Crawford
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard — Edmund White
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. — Heather Mills
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was… — David LaChapelle
My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know… — David LaChapelle
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which… — Joe Biden
I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going… — Cam Newton
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. — Chuck Hagel
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put… — Branch Rickey
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us… — Andy Hertzfeld
As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course… — Charlie Munger

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