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“You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.”
“You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And then I could talk to that white guy about the first time he lost someone close to his heart, and I could tell him about the first time I lost someone close to my heart, and I can guarantee you that at least 70 percent of the experienced feelings will be similar. We are human beings.”
“You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.”
“You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.”
Source: The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen
“You can take my life
But my Seoul is my own
Something you'll never understand.”
“You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.”
Source: The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)
“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”
“You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.”
“You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.”
“You can take on the world in a good suit.”
“You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.”
“You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”
“You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.”
“You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.”
“You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.”
“You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.”
Source: Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes
“You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”
“You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.”
“You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.”
“You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.”
“You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.”
“You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.”
“You can take the historian out of the storyteller, but you can't take the storyteller out of the historian.”
Source: The Testaments
“You can take the human out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the human.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“You can take the humanitarian out of the society, but you can't take society out of the humanitarian.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You can take the kettle from the dayo but not the dayo from the kettle”
“You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize them both. When you stop breathing in meditation, the kundalini is stabilized.”
“You can take the pain, the frustration, the skills, the talent, the experience you have inside you and package it into something that will benefit the world and you get paid for it. That's how greatness is made!”
“You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.”
“You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.”
“You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.”
“You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.”
“You can take this job and shove it because I quit.”
“you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.”
“You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.”
“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.”
“You can take your destiny into your own hands.”
“You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.”
“You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are flat. There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning in a sermon, less joy in a kiss…Less.”
Source: The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
“You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-”
“You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.”
“You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.”
“You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.”
“You can talk about everything, your deepest struggles and your most terrific happiness, with a #supersoulfriend. Send your #SSF a hug today!”