Take Me Quotes - Page 28

• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  People, Liberty, Arabic Language

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• They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

  William Henry Ashley

  Spring, Party, Winter

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• It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Interesting, Why Not, Asks

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Voice, Desert, Horizon

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  Verne Troyer

  Opportunity, Careers, One Day At A Time

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

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• I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

  Paul Westerberg

  Music, Thinking, People

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• It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Men, Trying, Digging

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• Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

  Mike McCready

  Stars, Anna, Higher

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• I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.

  B. J. Palmer

  Order, Law, People

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• I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Mean, Long

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Picks, Ifs

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• I just go where the guitar takes me.

  Angus Young

  Guitar

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• It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

  Robert Sheckley

  Oregon, Ibiza, Years

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• I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

  Daisy Whitney

  Church, Needs, Want

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• My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Lying, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by Bradford Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven`t got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Mother, Design, Want

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• It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Long, Lost

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

  Emmy Rossum

  Meaningful, Jobs, Taken

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• Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

  Nicki Minaj

  Pay, France, Materialistic

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• But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

  Lynn Johnston

  Mother, Children, Home

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

  Nik Kershaw

  Song, Fighting, Tunes

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• I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Clothes, People, Gracious

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• At last someone takes me seriously.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Lasts

  "Jeremy Paxman joins the Financial Times as a contributing editor" by Roy Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2014.

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  Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Long, Causes

  Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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• I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

  Miley Cyrus

  Shopping, Pick Me Up, Want

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