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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

I take every possible side.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.