Takes Quotes

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.