#taking

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. ↗

— David Soul

#always #been #beginning #door #driving

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#changes #dead #distinguished #living #living thing

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#away #family #i #myself #passionate

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bit #care #children #cooking #doing

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. ↗

— David Talbot

#american #american media #apparatus #bought #costly

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#attached #great #ice #large #lump

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#before #genre #grew #head #i

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#being #belongs #business #cannot #certainly