#taken

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#basically #i #know #last #living

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation. ↗

— Evan Dando

#between #hadn #i #taken #vacation

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#banal #been #essentially #everything #few

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#fact #food #had #i #in fact

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#being famous #clear #everyone #famous #good

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#been #ever #nothing #taken #thought

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#positive #top #voice

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#disposition #improve #preserve #standard #statesman

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? ↗

— George W. Bush

#any #attacks #bust #country #course