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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.