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• I've been through many years of psychotherapy, psycho-drama, I've taken risks in my life. I've had trials and tribulations just like every body else. You have to really think about who you are. You can't just go through life and sail threw.

  Joy Behar

  Drama, Thinking, Years

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• I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Records, Perfectionist

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.

  Christina Hendricks

  Fashion, Writing, Men

  "Christina Hendricks: What Joan from start of ‘Mad Men’ would tell Joan at the end". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 1, 2016.

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• These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.

  Edward Said

  Law, Support, United States

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Past

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

  Jodie Foster

  Memorable, College, Thinking

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

  Guy Maddin

  Thank God, Tasks, Goes On

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Interesting, Support, Challenges

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

  Hugh Panaro

  Growing Up, Dad, Father

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.

  Judy Woodruff

  Eye, Jail, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

  Katy B

  Inspiration, Artist, Bored

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Thinking, Natural, Source

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hero, Thinking, Self

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• I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

  Jens Lekman

  Home, World, Found

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wish, Mazes, My Family

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.

  Alex Scally

  Thinking, Band, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We want to make America great again. We want to bring back our industry, we want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan, and by the way Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. And that's what it's about. I have not heard about these incidences.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, America, Japan

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think we're being laughed at all over the world. I think that if you look at our military, we can't beat ISIS, General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave. We can't beat ISIS, okay? I think that our veterans are not taken care of, they're treated worse than illegal immigrants, by the way.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Thinking, Our Veterans

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be taken on its own terms.

  Hari Nef

  Meaningful, Luxury, Looks

  Source: wwd.com

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• The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Going Away, Finals, Cynicism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

  Laura Mullen

  Writing, Differences, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I was really taken with it because it felt at once very unapologetic for what it was, which is a romantic comedy. But at the same time, a little spiky and a little truthful.

  Simon Pegg

  House, Unapologetic, Littles

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

  Kode9

  Memories, Real, Mutation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Needs, Care

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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