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What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Robert Orben

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben

Humor, Mean, Remember

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

Leadership, Men, Leader

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
Laura Linney

Good, God, Nice

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Thomas J. Watson

Time, Someone, Try

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry

Trying, Again, Far

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Seriously, Affront

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
Brad Pitt

Love, Family, Loss

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
Sarah Palin

Government, Mind, Debt

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Al Lewis

Wait, Kids, Friday

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Willie Aames

God, Patience, Heart

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'
Emo Philips

Today, Said, Here

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
Jeanette Winterson

Time, Heart, Give

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn

I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.
Suze Orman

Love, Yourself, Care

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson

Humanity, Place, American

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Enjoy, Looking, General

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

Change, Nothing, Real

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock

Give, Easy, Lose

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Dennis Rodman

School, Two, College

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Fun, Wife

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.
Michele Bachmann

Country, Away, American

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Cher

Raining, Inside, Toys

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
Rand Paul

Government, Words, Party

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
Stevie Nicks

Good, Death, Rock

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay

Power, Earth, Property

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
Jack Black

Life, Music, Spiritual

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Lee Iacocca

Best, Waiting, Him

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor

Music, God, Art

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
Barbra Streisand

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