#granted

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. ↗

— Richie Sambora

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For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1. ↗

— Pete Sampras

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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

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