Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.
You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
I don't even take aspirin.
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
I think I'll take a bath in his blood.