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I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up. -- Christine Teigen
I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up. -- Christine Teigen
When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back. -- Rodrigo Santoro
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. -- Geoffrey Beene
I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life. -- Alain Robert
So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving. -- Lindsay Lohan
As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it. -- Chris Crutcher
You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away. -- French Montana
If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person. -- Patti Stanger
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. -- John Jay Chapman
Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate. -- Tracy Morgan
The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. -- Shimon Peres
People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought. -- William D. Cohan
After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested. -- James Hansen
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. -- Christopher Hitchens
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. -- Simon Sinek
One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered. -- Richard Carmona
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. -- Kevin Mitnick
Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving -- Frederic Bastiat
All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving. -- Patch Adams
Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others -- Saji Ijiyemi
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want. -- Carol Ann Duffy
Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving -- Tony Robbins
You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving. -- Bryant H. McGill
True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living. -- Heather Dorff
I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life. -- Shane Claiborne
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living -- Steven Morrissey
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking -- Joyce Grenfell
God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life. -- James Gunn
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. -- Geoffrey Beene
You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking. -- David Bowie
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship. -- Haruki Murakami
There are two types of people on earth: givers and takers. Life is not about taking and having but about giving and living. -- GE Paulus
The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs. -- Rush Limbaugh
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. -- John Dewey
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. -- Oswald Chambers
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave. -- Madonna Ciccone

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