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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.