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taken class littles
I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by. Andy Roddick
taken thinking government
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages? Margaret Mead
taken may planning
The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning. Napoleon Hill
taken media wire
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves. Marshall McLuhan
taken eye vulnerable
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time. Mark Helprin
taken winter vanity
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity. Mark Helprin
taken math thinking
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. Mark Haddon
taken drug performance-enhancing-drugs
I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them. Marion Jones
taken helping reckless
Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him. Oswald Chambers
artist sitting sage
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Charles Bukowski
artist careers damage
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. Ron Silver
artist nerd chance
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process. Susan Sarandon
artist care defeat
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us. Susan Glaspell
artist parent honor
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could. Sufjan Stevens
artist self jazz
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Studs Terkel
artist great-art great-artist
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ... Stevie Smith
artist talking law
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. Stevie Wonder
artist play exciting
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do. Stevie Wonder