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There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.
Henry Louis Gates

Find, Used, Few

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman

Work, Yourself, Seriously

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Happiness, Understand, Why

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

Life, Live, Care

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
Ina Garten

Love, Special, Ordinary

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
Clara Hughes

Depression, Down, Reason

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
Edward Witten

Life, Experience, Strong

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

Love, Peace, War

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
Joan Jett

Mean, Together, Trying

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
Jack Nicholson

Hate, Career, Play

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson

Two, Wrong, Matter

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
Jack Nicholson

Hate, Giving, Advice

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar

Give, Cricket, Serious

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
Eric Bana

Best, Long, After

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Vin Diesel

Dreams, Home, Failure

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

Courage, Failure, Successful

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
Emma Thompson

Work, Problem, Moral

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

Music, Father, Wanted

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Robert Fulghum

Everything, Put, Found

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov

Play, Problem, Rules

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.
Jon Meacham

Love, Hate, Down

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Become, Start, Everyday

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Glenn Beck

Care, Give, Taught

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
Fred Durst

Technology, Hate, Nothing

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

Life, Witness, Possess

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
Louis C. K.

Before, Try, Sometimes

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
Hayden Fry

Team, Scratch, Itches

Never take counsel of your fears.
Stonewall Jackson

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono

Marriage, Seriously, Knew

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Eric Cantona

Moment, Last, Sure

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