Taking Things For Granted Quotes - Page 3

• I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Granted, Audience

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

  George Pataki

  Taken, Fighting, Thinking

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Taken, Imagination, Strange

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• As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

  Susan Oliver

  Children, Taken, Cities

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• The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

  Herbert Croly

  Song, Taken, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge

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• It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Taken, Democracy, Prejudice

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

  Peter Straub

  Taken, Events, Narrative

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• I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Taken, Democratic

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• I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

  Jason Ritter

  People, Television, Want

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• We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

  Tom Petty

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Taken, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

  William H. Wharton

  Taken, Government, Land

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• I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Taken, Thinking, Tests

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• The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

  Richard McKenna

  Machines, Way, Machinery

  Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

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

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• I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

  Ethel Merman

  Taken, Hair, Care

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "The Biscuit Torturers of the U.S. Military". www.dailykos.com. July 06, 2005.

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• In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Science, Simple

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

  Tom Wopat

  Taken, Thinking, Littles

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• My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

  Branford Marsalis

  Dad, Taken, House

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Jeff Ament

  Sex, Taken, Kids

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• To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

  Pierre Salinger

  Children, Taken, Life Is

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