Take Me Quotes - Page 25

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  There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

  Snoop Dogg

  Ghetto, Losing

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Night

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• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

  Ben Harper

  Emotional, Mind, Substance

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• I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Race, Lynching, Names

  James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

  Bernie Taupin

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Order, Long

  "Kevin Costner and Amber Heard Talk 3 DAYS TO KILL, Work/Life Balance, Playing a Seductive Spy Hunter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Giving, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

  Will Rogers

  Eggs, Ham, Newspapers

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

  Laura Lee

  Reading, Adventure, Able

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  Zara Phillips

  Night, Shopping, Long

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• The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Animal, Years

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.

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• I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

  Reggie Watts

  Rocks, Groups, Band

  "SXSW 2012: Reggie Watts Explains His Unique Comedy Style". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. March 15, 2012.

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• music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.

  Eloise Greenfield

  Music

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• William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  Mick Jagger

  Drinking, Thinking, Long

  "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Long, Records

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.

  Louis C. K.

  Daughter, Morning, Believe

  "Louis C.K.'s Crabby, Epic Love Letter to NYC: 'Everyone's Dealing with the Same S - ... Elbow to Elbow'" by Louis C.K., as told to Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 8, 2015.

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• My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.

  Drew Barrymore

  World, Know How, Knows

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• Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

  Mr. T

  Gold, Four, Pounds

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• My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Two, Ballet, Asking

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• I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Egyptian Pyramids, Years, Historical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Passion, Blood, Music Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  Confused, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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