#took

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ↗

— Al Gore

#economic #economic growth #educational #environmental #environmental protection

'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles. ↗

— Gotye

#come #constant #fairly #female #find

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#beginning #create #granted #i #never

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything. ↗

— Lee Grant

#being #big #chance #down #everything

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#back #childhood #during #even #fairy

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#because #compared #fewer #look #lot

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#christianity #church #grandparents #i #important

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#bring #caffeine #control #days #market

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#become #friends #himself #i #judge