#took

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes. ↗

— Bart Howard

#find #how #i #me #minutes

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that. ↗

— Edward Burns

#business #doing #eye #film #film business

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ↗

— John Burroughs

#new #path #something #take #took

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#club #dancing #girl #girl scouts #joined

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression. ↗

— Jay Carney

#depression #everyone #faced #fact #great

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#being #being happy #grow #happy #into

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million. ↗

— Steve Case

#get #i #i think #million #next

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. ↗

— Julian Castro

#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation