Top Takes Quotes
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
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Jean Paul 
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Victor Hugo All Takes Quotes
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky 
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If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.
Lee Marvin
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Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
Andrea Corr
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
Satyajit Ray
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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
Justin Timberlake
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