Granted Quotes

• I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • People
  • Fans
  • Granted

• 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
  • Done
  • Past
  • Democracy

• You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

  

  Josh Duhamel
  • Enjoy
  • Movies
  • Granted

• My general rule of thumb is to never take for granted that it’s opposable.

  

  Nick Thune
  • Rule
  • Take
  • Granted

• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Assumption
  • Complexity
  • Activist

• We have a chance to do something special for Chicago and we are not taking that for granted.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Chance
  • Chicago
  • Granted

• Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

  

  Michael Novak
  • Purpose
  • Granted

• At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

  

  Erika Christensen
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Parent

• I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Person
  • Wear
  • Granted

• It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new kind of American reality, one that takes diversity for granted. It doesn't celebrate diversity, actually, it just says: this is how we live now.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

  

  Cathy Moriarty
  • Believe
  • Granted

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