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Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beaut...
Robert E. Lee
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
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My father came from Hungary after the tragedy of Yalta, and my mother`s father was a Jew from Salonika . . . we loved France. We didn`t take it for granted.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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I believe that we can all change the world in small form. Being granted a chance to have people believe in your talents enough that you can touch the world in masses, there is no telling how you can change the world. Whether it be through music, charity, ...
Amy Adams
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At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame -- but you shouldn`t take it for granted.
Jon Lovitz
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn`t something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to...
Marilyn Monroe
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. It`s really valuable to gain that, especially at a young age. - Referr...
Adrien Brody
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Sometimes, I think you`re better off not being married today. When you see your married friends split up, it`s devastating. Call it scared! Call it an obsession. But I took it for granted I was going to marry a girl I went with for nine years. That is, un...
Paul Lynde
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I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.
Lucy Liu
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You know, we have to take these characters who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities
Rachael Cook
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From a young boy growing up in Haiti, living with no electricity or running water, my journey to Hollywood has been rich with experience. I take little for granted and appreciate the beauty of life, knowing that there is so much more to learn.
Jimmy Jean-Louis
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[From her 1977 book "Cast of Thousands"[ I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I`m grateful every day that it isn`t banned as a drug, that I don`t have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there`s no need ...
Anita Loos
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I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
Anna Faris
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It`s full speed ahead, and we`re not playing cautious here. I`m going to take the fight to George Bush. We must take nothing for granted, but in November we will beat George W. Bush.
John Kerry
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Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul
Source: brainyquote.com
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You`ve got a lot of guys who can run 10.2, who can run 20.5 (in the 200), and we take that for granted. What we don`t have are the guys in college who can run sub-10 (seconds) or the numbers that we may have had in the 1980s or early 1990s.
Ashley DeCarlo
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You want to win, but you want to win playing your best. That`s why it would be weird if we played anybody except Canada, but we really don`t want to take anything for granted.
Julie Chu
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
Rachael Cook
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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
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You have to show respect for the other guys. It`s good to know we have a spot in the playoffs but still you don`t want to take things for granted.
Albert Pujols
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You have to decide if you`re going to wilt like a daisy or if you`re just going to go forward and live the life that you`ve been granted.
Kevin Costner
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You can`t take life for granted.
Jennifer Lopez
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You can`t come out against the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and make that many penalties, ... They won`t beat themselves. Granted, they lost two coordinators, but they haven`t changed.
Asaph Schwapp
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Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
Shannen Doherty
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When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don`t have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 mov...
Kiefer Sutherland
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When Hegel later became a man of influence` he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
Andrew Krcik
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We took a team for granted last year. I don`t want the same thing to happen, so whether they win or lose, we`re going to go in with the same mind-set. We`ve got to go out and get better and play the type of game we know how to play.
Axel Tandberg
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We take so much for granted and you can`t help but to go out to these people. They need some basic supplies... water. My god if I could get some of the local orchards to throw a truck load of apples into it. Anything they could use. Just get it down there...
Tom Powers
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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Amy Trimble
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