For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
You know, we have to take these characters – who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional – and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
They don’t fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted – particularly women.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot.
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.
We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.
I hope maybe ‘The Returned,’ in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.
Sometimes you know a friend so well, you take for granted, ‘Oh, they’re just like this, and they’re going to be okay.’
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don’t take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don’t like. They seek to outsmart the world.
Air superiority, which the United States has taken for granted since World War II, is no longer assured. And, without control of the skies, U.S. ships and soldiers would be vulnerable in ways that are difficult to imagine.
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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.
I am not taking anything for granted.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
I know that every time I step on the stage it’s a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is… you know, it’s just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I’ve continued working… I’m just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I’m sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
We sometimes take our security for granted.
Community isn’t something I ever take for granted.
Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even think about it.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I don’t take a scene or word for granted.
Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.
You can’t really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I’ve loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.
I know there is an opportunity to make some money and have a life-changing effect on me and those things are great. I don’t take those things for granted whatsoever, but my focus is really on my craft.
I’ve learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren’t.
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
At 46 years old, I can no longer afford take my health for granted.
I was always winning, winning, winning. I took winning for granted.
We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.
It’s been a dream of mine to play in the NFL, so whenever I hear my name being talked about in someone’s mock draft or whether or not he should stay or go, it’s always interesting to listen to, but at the same time, I don’t take it for granted.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted… it was inevitable that I’d start giving little performances.
We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.
In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it ‘Grand Illusion’ or ‘Duck Dynasty.’
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women’s lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
Every day is different, and every wicket is different. You cannot take things for granted.
A lot of people take things for granted.
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don’t take it for granted, not even for a second.
The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don’t drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
Granted, it’s not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In ‘The Night Manager,’ for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
You can’t take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
I vividly remember my first interaction with Sir Richard Attenborough, I was in my final year at NSD (National School of Drama) in 1979, and casting director Dolly Thakore got in touch with me. We weren’t supposed to work outside NSD but special permission was granted to the students who were shortlisted for the audition.
Our goal is to play into late June and don’t take the process for granted.
When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn’t give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who’d eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, ‘I’m famous. How can I be fat?’ It was a slap. I decided to get fit.
The fact that our band has weathered so much and stayed together for so long and we still get on stage and have a good time together, that’s a big deal for us. We don’t take that for granted.
You know, I can’t afford to take anything for granted.
