Granted Quotes - Page 7

• The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Agreement, Records, Want

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. January 28, 2008.

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• I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Caring, Thinking

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.

  Jake Halpern

  Real, Night, Light

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Rights, Majority, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Wise, Spiritual, Teacher

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• I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

  Elton John

  Appreciate, And Love, Performing

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Life is beautiful. Look around. Don't take anything for granted.

  Martha Williamson

  Beautiful, Looks, Life Is

  Interview with John W. Kennedy,

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• I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  Being Thankful, Age, Needs

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Miracle, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

  Richard Wright

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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• What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

  John Mayer

  Single Mom, Struggle, America

  "John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

  Seth

  Men, Ties, Giving

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• Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

  Seth

  Meaningful, Evil, People

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Would Be, Upside Down

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• A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.

  Adam Smith

  Competition, Secret, Demand

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.114, Imprint Academic

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• Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  Pliny the Younger

  Lying, Fall, Mean

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• What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

  John Piper

  Voice, Ears, Privilege

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

  Scott Walker

  Moving, America, People

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• In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

  George P. Baker

  Moving, Character, Today

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• The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

  Esther Perel

  Dating, Tension, Engaged

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Taking Things For Granted, Audience

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

  Josh Duhamel

  Miserable Person, Enjoy, Persons

  "Josh Duhamel: It Doesn't Take Much To Make Me Cry". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The people around whom I've lived most of my life, they're similar. They have same expectations of life that aren't exaggerated, they could be accomplished, they could get what they want. But they could not, too. It's not to be taken for granted. Even getting by, and being satisfied, barely, is hard.

  Steven Conrad

  Taken, People, Expectations

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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