#taking

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#inspirational #risks #success #taking-risks #equality

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

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

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#ambiguous #end #i #i always #morally

Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#be the first #conservative #conservative movement #conservatives #counsel

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

— David Duchovny

#approaching #i #like #me #never

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#because #begin #better #bob #business

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

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