#taking

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. ↗

— Robert Collier

#any #belief #chances #measured #success

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#did #eyes #front #having #know

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#another #entertainment #everything #half #like

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democrat #evils #i #immature #impossible

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' ↗

— David Duchovny

#approaching #i #like #me #never

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. ↗

— Michael East

#athletics #could #found #i #myself

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#animal #animal life #appetite #eats #healthy

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

#doing #everywhere #fun #himself #humorist

Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#am #because #been #biological #care