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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
Casey Stengel

Said, Another, Here

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille

May, Dark, After

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Emma Thompson

Care, Past, Seriously

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger

Women, Care, Children

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Brian Koslow

Wise, Able, Leave

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
Michael Bloomberg

Work, Politics, Good

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
Bjork

Nature, Care, Themselves

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Jean Baudrillard

Money, Afraid, Again

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson

Character, Real, Made

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.
Louis C. K.

Smile, Kids, Lunch

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand

Love, Women, Earth

The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Life, Good, Health

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Find, Challenge, Difficult

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Attitude, Today, Forward

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

After, Practice, Nap

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
Bruce Willis

Time, Today, Care

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
Richard Pryor

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
Lynda Barry

Humor, Time, Try

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert Spencer

Music, Human, Spirit

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Zedong

Enemy, Him, Seriously

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong

Work, Woman, Place

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
Marilyn vos Savant

Second, Clean, Helping

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor

Musicians, Suffer, Low

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J. D. Salinger

Movies, Heart, Mean

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
Boris Johnson

Freedom, Able, Lives

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck

Life, Death, Alone

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

Real, Problem, Problems

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan

Marriage, Nothing, Place

Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan

Art, Reality, Surprise

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
Lenny Bruce

Hot, Lead, Stone

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