Granted Quotes - Page 18

• The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

  Tony Dungy

  Firsts, Wanted, Stills

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• Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ecosystems, Support, Effort

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Careers, Odds

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

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• Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Mystery, Corny

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• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  Vera Farmiga

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

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• And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

  Larry Flynt

  Democracy, Culture, Speech

  "Larry Flynt on sex and presidents" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beach, Writing, Sky

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• When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

  Robin Gibb

  Long, World, Wonder

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

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• I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

  Emmylou Harris

  Blessed, Able

  "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

  Lauryn Hill

  Integrity, Artist, Giving

  "Nicki Minaj & Hot 97 Beef: Rapper Defends Summer Jam Pullout On Funkmaster Flex’s Show" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Taken, Order

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• Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Expression, Democracy, Transition

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• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  Janet Jackson

  Birthday, Hair, Age

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• To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Free Gifts, Names, Lasts

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: With an Essay On His Life and Genius".

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• All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Grateful, People, Giving

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• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Rights, Influence

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• I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Wish, Tears, Shed

  Aung San Suu Kyi's speech to parliament in Westminster Hall, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Buddhist, Views

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• We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

  Robert Lanza

  Mind, Together

  "Anything Beyond The Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.

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• I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

  Chris LeDoux

  Thinking, Appreciate, Joy

  FaceBook post by Chris LeDoux from Mar 10, 2016

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• Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

  Annie Lennox

  Rights, World, Developing

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• Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Book, People

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

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• This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

  Bill Maher

  Facts, Doe, Comedy

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