“Don't take it personally. Just take it seriously.”
Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter
The Four Agreements (1997)
Context: Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
“Don't take it personally. Just take it seriously.”
Gordon Ramsay (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter
“If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.”
Blake Lewis (1981) American musician
Commenting on his take of You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi in the Bon Jovi-themed week in his pre-performance clip on May 1, 2007.
Attributed, On American Idol
“It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 73
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
“I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 180
Context: I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
Interview with media outlet, quoted by First Post, "People don't vote me to power to take revenge: Modi" http://www.firstpost.com/politics/people-dont-vote-me-to-power-to-take-revenge-modi-1483319.html (16 April 2014). <br class="br">2014