Take Quotes

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.