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My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I like to take care of myself and know what foods I should be eating.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.