Granted Quotes - Page 19

• Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

  Helen Mirren

  Husband, Space, Long

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• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Boys, Class

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.261, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Distance, Years

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

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• I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Actor Edward Norton helps create 'Facebook of philanthropy'" by Alina Cho, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2010.

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

  Carre Otis

  Taken, Diversity, Childhood

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Strong, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Wise, Gains

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

  Jane Pauley

  Ordinary, Personal Life, Ordinary Life

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

  Tom Petty

  Fall, People, Late

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• Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

  Steven Pinker

  Country, War, Today

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.281, Penguin

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  Oliver Stone

  Iran, Cameras, India

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• When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  "Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Victory, Fool, Careless

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• Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

  Vera Wang

  Mean, Cities, Magazines

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• There is so much that people take for granted.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People

  "I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2007.

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• Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

  Debra Winger

  Giving, Stories, Variation

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• The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, Blessing, Differences

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• Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Temptation, Faithful

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• We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Play, Hypocrisy, Political

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Government

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Joy, Consolation, Felt

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.177, Random House

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• This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

  Kim Edwards

  Fighting, World, Sometimes

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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