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• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  Alton Brown

  Our World, Ice, Fascinating

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• Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

  Jeff Bridges

  Santa Barbara, Wife, Take Me Away

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• An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Differences, Rough Patches

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Men, Action

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• The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

  Fiona Apple

  Seven Years, Stuff, Reason

  FaceBook post by Fiona Apple from Jun 10, 2012

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• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  Angus Young

  Men, Caves, Rock N Roll

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• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  Alan Alda

  Asking, Steps, Good Enough

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  Vin Diesel

  Inspirational, Dream, New York

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Schedules, Detours, Dinner

  "Matthew McConaughey Throws Muscle Behind New Apparel Collection". Interview with Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. February 14, 2013.

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• But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

  Demetri Martin

  Dream

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

  Gary Paulsen

  Ocean, Light, Air

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Gentleman, Dying

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

  Sherwood Smith

  Honor, Villain, Enough

  "Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, 2011.

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• What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fourteen, Sucker

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• Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Daddy, Mills, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Jobs, Character, Destiny

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

  Michael Haneke

  Stupid, Film, Treats

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• It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

  Stone Gossard

  Long, May, Singers

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• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Distance, People, Giving

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

  Megan Fox

  People, Needs, Way

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• Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Who I Am, Funny Irish, Being Irish

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

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• Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

  Zac Efron

  Clothes, Sometimes, Clean

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