#take

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#basically #called #continuing #education #enrolled

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. ↗

— David O. Russell

#attention #beautiful #beautiful thing #better #biggest

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. ↗

— Plutarch

#future #good #learn #make #man

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

#dangerous #dangerous thing #most #riots #seriously

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#foundations #just #kinda #now #our

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment. ↗

— Sally Rand

#equipment #living #love #take #take care

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ↗

— Jeannette Rankin

#far #go #like #people #take

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again. ↗

— Jean Reno

#bit #camera #crew #death #directors

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bargaining #chance #chances #conviction #first

The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make ↗

— Ollie Slaney

#inspirational #life #mistakes #preach #truth