Take Me Quotes - Page 6

• Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, Drug, Hallucinogens

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, (p. 737), 2012.

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• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

  Jack Black

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  "Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. April 23, 2012.

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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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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Communication, Skills Training

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

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• I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, People, Singing

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• Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

  George C. Wallace

  Change, Giving, Looks

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• I go wherever my creativity takes me.

  Lil Wayne

  Creativity

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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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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

  Angus Young

  Play, Guitar, Chords

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• Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

  Alan Turing

  Machines, Surprise, Programming

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Giving, Feel Good, Doe

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• When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

  Adam Sandler

  Two, Gigs, Sometimes

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  When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Growing Up, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

  Jill Scott

  Art, Growing Up, Grandmother

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my son is due in 5 weeks". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

  Britney Spears

  Dating, Bats, Want

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• The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

  Billy Tauzin

  New Life, Want, Missions

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• Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

  Andrea Thompson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

  Harriet Tubman

  Strength, Fighting, Long

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