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“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.”

Care Grows Taken Tree Sky

Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life

“Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?”

Matter States Care Age House Given Grows Half Taken Youth Old Age Health Care Idle Earning Wheat Prudent Diligent Deposits Thrifty

Author:David Frum

“Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.”

“Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.”

Knows Trying Whole Grows Decision Steps Know How Growing Up Taken Whole Life

Author:Justin Bieber

“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.”

Thinking World Seems Grows Natural Church Growing Up Taken Happened Degrees Catholic Hopeful Priests Optimist Belly Neurotic Vatican Ii

Author:Richard Rohr

“to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.”

Grows Company Taken Tables Wine Aging Fingers Edges Mortals Food And Wine Gifts Of Life

Book:Three kingdoms

Source: Three kingdoms

“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]”

Care Dies Grows Taken Tree Sky Dens

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.”

Want Humans Long Grows Human Beings Taken Adults

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”

Ifs Matter Grows Steps Taken Stronger Conventions Fulfilling Listen To Yourself Fulfilling Life Power Of One

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."”

Ifs Grows Company Taken Failing Lists Microsoft Innovators Skype

Author:Andy Ihnatko