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Kevin Bacon Actor
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"They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)"

Thinking Taken Dark
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Jawaharlal Nehru Politician, Prime Minister
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"There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life."

Inspirational Taken Sticks
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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."

Taken Sleep Hangover
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had."

People Light Taken
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Johnny Miller Golfer
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"I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me."

Games Taken Swings
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Joseph Roth Novelist
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"A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus."

Mean Moving Taken
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Josh Bernstein Author, Filmmaker
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"If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins."

Giving Winning Taken
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food."

Taken Sorry Food
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Julian Barnes Author
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"Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk."

Pain Taken Drunk
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard."

Beautiful Taken Coal
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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."

Home Taken Fashion
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"There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him."

Taken Journey Angel
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Huston Smith Philosopher
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"Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives."

Religious Taken Attitude
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him."

Taken Buddhism Buddhist
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."

Use Taken Teacher
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Patti Davis Author, Actress
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"Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer."

Taken Cells Offering
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy to think of other avenues to follow. maybe because i had been afraid of what others would think. maybe because it was hard work to be different. perhaps, because a human being is condemned to repeat the steps taken by the previous generation until a certain number of people begin to behave in a different fashion. then the world changes, and we change with it."

Life Taken Fashion
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government"

Government Taken Principles
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