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I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Evel Knievel

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Reality, Place, Vision

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
A. N. Wilson

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
Jessica Simpson

Best, Dad, Heart

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Yourself, Parents

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Good, Fool, Bad

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher

Time, Good, Business

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.
Cornel West

Enough, Poor, Wait

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky

Care, Everything, Somebody

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.
Norah Jones

Music, Time, Two

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson

Self, Creative, Act

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson

America, Management, North

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
Arthur Erickson

Forward, Choice, Research

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant

Mind, Find, Off

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler

Love, Place, Drama

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
Jeff Foxworthy

Give, Two, Away

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Time, Parents, Long

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Less, Culture, Seriously

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Humanity, Problem, Film

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
Anacreon

Love, Money, War

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Craig T. Nelson

Power, Give, Through

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard

Away, Seeing, Uniqueness

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
Katherine Heigl

Work, Time, Diet

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
Katherine Heigl

Work, Between, Child

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Simple, Obvious

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.
Jon Meacham

Crisis, Long, May

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
Jon Meacham

Faith, Children, Young

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast.
Lee Haney

Beautiful, Real, Person

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

Sleep, Wife, Her

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