Granted Quotes - Page 12

• Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

  Peter McWilliams

  Appreciation, Overcoming, Helping

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• 'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Reality, Notion, Journalist

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Failing, Taking Life For Granted, Life For Granted

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• What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jesus, Believe, America

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• So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

  John Frusciante

  Thinking, Spirit, Responsible

  Interview with Evan C., www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Sides, Wonderful, Knows

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• ... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Luxury, Thieves, Doe

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• The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to be granted the mercy of quick release. Publicly humiliated? Yes please. Having all their crappy books remaindered? Definitely. Dragged away from their taxpayer funded troughs and their cushy sinecures, to be replaced by people who actually know what they're talking about? For sure. But hanging? Hell no. Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags.

  James Delingpole

  Book, Talking, People

  "Denier Delingpole Wishes For 'Climate Nuremberg,' Says 'Hanging Is Far Too Good' For Climate Scientists!". thinkprogress.org. April 7, 2013.

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• I never take anything for granted. I think it's very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now as I ever did when I get a chauffeur driven car pick me up and I stay in a fantastic hotel or get to fly in a private plane. I never want to get blasé.

  Victoria Beckham

  Thinking, Car, Pick Me Up

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mean, Blow, Two

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• When my son got sick and he was in the hospital, and they took out his kidney when he was less than a year old, I definitely learned that each moment is really precious and I don't want to take anything for granted.

  John Feldmann

  Son, Years, Sick

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

  Kevin Hart

  Couple, Kids, Opportunity

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• The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

  John Caples

  Judging, Headlines, Copies

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• Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

  Mark Cuban

  Mirrors, Everyday, Looks

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• ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  Bertrand Russell

  Meaningful, School, Data

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• The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Heaven, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.53, Routledge

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• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  Barney Frank

  Should Have, People, Today

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• It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Perfect, Produce

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• The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

  Tom Bodett

  Thinking, Media, People

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• Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Laughter, Humanity

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.116, Zondervan

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• One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

  Kim Basinger

  Drinking, Order, Hygiene

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• It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

  Lil Wayne

  Making Love, Our Love, Asks

  Song: Get Too Comfortable

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• I think women are often taken for granted.

  Sheila Johnson

  Taken, Thinking, Taken For Granted

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Two, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Play, People, Able

  Source: therumpus.net

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