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  • I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. -- Coco Chanel
  • Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
  • My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves. -- Kim Harrison
  • That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true. -- Susan Sontag
  • Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence. -- Frederic Bastiat
  • As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing. -- Alberto Manguel
  • [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this. -- Seth MacFarlane
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
  • There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. -- Huston Smith
  • It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
  • I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers. -- Paul Schneider
  • There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down. -- Louis Jourdan
  • I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. -- Jason Ritter
  • Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. -- Melinda Gates
  • Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself. -- Angel Olsen
  • Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. -- Helen Mirren
  • Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. -- David Chang
  • In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. -- Huston Smith
  • Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted. -- Tony Abbott
  • It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that. -- N. T. Wright
  • I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there. -- Tana French
  • There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted. -- Josie Maran
  • I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney Poitier. I'm on the set, and I'm totally taking it for granted. Everyone is working for everyone else and pulling for the very best, and it makes everyone better because you feel that effort and concern and appreciation. -- Scott Wilson
  • After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have to put in the hard yards, not rest on my laurels. A lot of it is right place, right time, but I enjoy the challenge, constantly refining my craft, not taking it too seriously but never taking it for granted. -- Mark Hadlow
  • I am not taking anything for granted. -- Tim Kaine
  • In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it. -- Stephen Batchelor
  • I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted. -- Avril Lavigne
  • When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted. -- Frederick Franck
  • We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. -- John Desmond Bernal
  • If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat. -- Louis Tomlinson
  • To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. -- Maxine Greene
  • In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all. -- Stephen Batchelor
  • Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. -- Max Lerner
  • Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. -- David Steindl-Rast
  • The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible. -- Neal Shusterman
  • I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted. -- Marilyn Manson
  • Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it. -- Paul Feyerabend
  • God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
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