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I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.
Eric Cantona

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.
Dwyane Wade

Chance, Ideas, Somebody

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan

Work, Art, Beautiful

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
Thabo Mbeki

Experience, Ignore, Negative

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Martha Beck

Experience, Living, Become

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
John Berger

Book, Everything, Happen

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
Eddie Vedder

Power, Risk, Difference

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
Carly Fiorina

Fight, Tilt

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

Last, Everybody, Won

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
Annie Lennox

Few, Rights, Granted

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Annie Lennox

Wonderful, Stand, Scotland

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
Annie Lennox

Life, Different, Same

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.
Julia Roberts

Deep, Couple, Daughter

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julia Roberts

Love, Time, Great

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
Julia Roberts

Pride, Movie, Lunch

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
Julia Roberts

Experience, Dad, Young

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
Shirley MacLaine

Good, Job, Insecure

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
Shirley MacLaine

Understand, Order, Hill

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.
Maria Sharapova

Play, Matter, Individual

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Great, Down

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
David Cameron

Forward, Down, Economy

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
David Cameron

Work, Job, Cannot

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.
David Cameron

Through, Trying, Country

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.
David Cameron

Peace, Freedom, Today

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Neil Young

Change, Everything, Fresh

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.
Demi Lovato

Dating, Honest, Journey

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
Bernard Cornwell

Winning, Mad, Looking

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
Kate Hudson

Leaving, Big, Away

Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.
Joe Biden

Care, Two, Before

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.
Kristen Stewart

Off, College, Awesome

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