#taken

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#elements #embrace #i #i am #me

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#album #charts #classical #could #countries

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right. ↗

— Bill Maher

#become #been #conservative #country #more

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#comprehension #great #lack #literally #meant

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready. ↗

— Ellen Malcolm

#president #ready #really #taken #time

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#before #had #inquiries #inquiry #jurist

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#defeat #important #knowledge #offers #personality

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #deaf #deafness #even #i

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#also #because #become #being #both

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#camps #father #i #internment #months