Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.
Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision. . . Do SOMETHING, take a step.
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
I take risks, if you want to call it a risk. All the people running for president, last time, you know, they all came to visit me or meet me. They all wanted my endorsement and I endorsed [Rick] Perry at that time. He wasn't that well-liked either, but you have to do what you have to do.
I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.
Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
I don't take characters home with me.
Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N. O. I. , there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N. O. I. , the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem. . . Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know it's about something. It's about something important humanly, but since there are no words, nobody knows what it's about.
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.
Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.
If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.
Women say. . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.
It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.