Take Me Quotes - Page 16

• I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

  Janis Karpinski

  Soldier, Attention, Care

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• I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

  Pia Zadora

  Mean Girls, Husband, White

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• I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Faith, Mother, Baby

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• I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  Eddie Campbell

  Art, Morning, Thinking

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• People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Long

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Men, Ordinary

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• I'm in love with mary jane. she's my main thing. she makes me feel alright. she makes my heart sing. and when I'm feeling low, she comes as no suprise. turns me on with her love, takes me to paradiiiiise do you love me mary jane, yeah now do you think you love me mary jane don't you play no game.

  Rick James

  Weed, Heart, Thinking

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• The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Simple, Phones, Cells

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• For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Goal, Focus, Clubs

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• What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

  Emilie Autumn

  Home, Angel, Wings

  Song: Epilogue: What If, 2007

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• If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up.

  Mary Kom

  Mother, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

  Dakota Blue Richards

  Book, Reader

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Winter

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• It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

  Antony Beevor

  Book, Writing, Years

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• In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

  Tea Obreht

  Memories, Grandfather, Stones

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.

  B. J. Palmer

  Order, Law, People

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• I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Mean, Long

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Picks, Ifs

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• I just go where the guitar takes me.

  Angus Young

  Guitar

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• This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

  Charles Frohman

  Littles, Ships, Wonderful

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• Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

  John Denver

  Country, Home, Country Roads

  Song: Take Me Home, Country Roads, 1971

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• I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Tunes, Firsts

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• I drank water from your spring
  and felt the current take me.

  Rumi

  Spring, Water, Currents

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Years, Wonder

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