Granted Quotes - Page 17

• Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

  Claire Danes

  Children, Three, World

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• Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.

  Lily King

  Writing, Culture, Hell

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

  Maggie Nelson

  Identity, Taxes, Get Involved

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be available to the common man. It's no wonder that TIME magazine recorded the number one event of the last 1,000 years was the Gutenberg printing of the Bible which made this book available in mass form to all people.

  Steve Green

  Book, Men, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mean, Fighting, Hatred

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.

  Michael Sandel

  Today, Financial, Invisible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

  Jeff Mangum

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be sick over that certainly didn't change. And also our media, if it's possible, seems to be getting even worse. The alleged news media. And then there are the teabag racists adding insult to injury. But I don't have that same heartbreak anymore, because it's not fresh heartbreak anymore. It's like I'm used to it. I'm sure we all are just used to it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sick, Heartbreaking, Racist

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• One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.

  Michael Pollan

  Cancer, Heart, Thinking

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.

  Renee Zellweger

  Girl, Teenager, Car

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• We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

  Christina Aguilera

  Luxury, People

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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

  Sean Astin

  Thinking, Information, Swirls

  "iPhone: 'If you'd shown it to Benjamin Franklin his head would have exploded'" by Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

  Arnold Bennett

  Creativity, Artist, Soul

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

  Danny Boyle

  Animal, Important, Sun

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• You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

  Luke Bryan

  Night, Appreciate, Fans

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

  David Cameron

  Unions, Pay, Today

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• Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Drug, Done, Kind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Growing Up, African American

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

  Joan Collins

  Volleyball, Thinking, Play

  "Tracey Emin". Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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• Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

  Charlie Dent

  Sacrifice, America, Liberty

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• Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

  Shannen Doherty

  Frustrated, Eleven, Right Now

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• I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

  David Duchovny

  Writing, Hard Work, Thinking

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