Some of the women interviewed took for granted that Mrs.
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Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted.
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You always saw beauty in the things people took for granted.
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This was impossible work that we at home took for granted.
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I definitely took for granted that she would be with me forever.
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I took for granted the freedom I had before my day-long reign.
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Power isn't something women of that generation — and still today — took for granted.
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This was stuff that, when I was playing quarterback, I took for granted.
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I took for granted that the Puerto Rico I knew would always exist.
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Early on, I took for granted the fact that I would find love.
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People sort of took for granted that the Affordable Care Act was lost already.
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It's the most moving thing when someone gets something that I took for granted.
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"Growing up, there was a lot that I took for granted, visually," muses Gonzales.
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"The foods Twain loved, we took for granted as American classics," Mr. Beahrs said.
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I could indulge in the activities that most other pubescent teenagers took for granted.
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But the economy isn't delivering the kind of rising prosperity previous generations took for granted.
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Nostalgia aside, I was struck by the sheer variety I had (and took for granted).
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It was simply there, and I took for granted that it would be there forever.
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In my family, voting was a sacred responsibility, one which we never took for granted.
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Republicans anticipate finding the convenient meeting rooms they took for granted will be off limits.
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Eighteen months younger than me, Victoria had always been there, someone I took for granted.
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For years we took for granted that a more "connected" world would be a harmonious one.
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Most are seeking what we took for granted as kids: an affordable, family-oriented, outdoorsy lifestyle.
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This new medium was a revelation, a gift of freedom that we all took for granted.
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She took for granted and virtually ignored many of these voters and several of these states.
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Any coherent conversation is a gift, the verbal back-and-forth I once took for granted.
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He said it was dominated by large foreign corporations which took for granted billion-dollar profits.
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What I took for granted before my shooting now requires hours upon hours of hard work.
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"I just kind of took for granted a relationship that I did not have," she said.
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The white working class has lost pensions and health care benefits it once took for granted.
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You hear a lot of people say I took for granted that these rights would be safe.
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That I took for granted, and I think that's because of where I grew up in Virginia.
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"We now have to fight hard for basic truths that we once took for granted," he said.
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What surprised Sherman were the little things that he always took for granted at the bigger programs.
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I ponder how I took for granted my youth by basking in the sun and never moisturizing.
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That appreciation wasn't something Lil Peep took for granted, and he gave it back just as passionately.
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They took for granted that Trump might care about access to birth control for low-income women.
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How could something she so took for granted—namely, her rights as a citizen—vanish so quickly?
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Wisconsin, of course, is the state Hillary Clinton took for granted/failed to visit/lost in 2016.
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Having no choice For most of his adult life, health insurance was a comfort Ruscoe took for granted.
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It's forcing us to think again about issues we never really thought about that we took for granted.
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For these men, this year's election is a rare taste of the clout they once took for granted.
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The shops also host gigs and provide a venue for musical interaction that older generations took for granted.
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I also wrote about my mother, who gave me everything but whom I took for granted at times.
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It made me appreciate the mundane aspects of my life, the things I ordinarily ignored or took for granted.
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It lacked the narrative structure, moral fiber, and cathartic transformation that even the crassest feed serials took for granted.
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Now when I look back at that picture, holy shit, I can't believe how much I took for granted.
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Knowing the historical origins of these everyday products certainly helps us appreciate innovations that we previously took for granted.
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Before Snapchat, the industry took for granted that everything users posted to the internet should remain there by default.
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Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted, most bomb pussy, who, because of me, sleep evaded.
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"It gives me a different outlook on moments of my life that I took for granted before," she tells PEOPLE.
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Spinal cord injuries can be extremely disruptive to a person's ability to do physical activities they once took for granted.
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We all took for granted everything he did for us and every day without him so far has been hell.
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"I have had to view things other people took for granted from a different perspective," she writes on her website.
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Everything that happened after 9/11 that was remotely normal, stuff you took for granted, became a really big deal.
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Rest in peace, my true love, who I took for granted—most bomb pussy—who because of me, sleep evaded.
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Then again, the things that they probably took for granted were mind-blowingly new to me: The fully realized alien worlds!
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"African-Americans—our most loyal constituency—we all too frequently took for granted," he told a largely black audience in Georgia.
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Being home for the summer makes me appreciate the wonderful things from my island that I took for granted before moving away.
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Neither do prominent intellectuals enjoy the kind of entree to presidents and their campaigns that Schlesinger and his friends took for granted.
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JW: Yeah, because my teachers were David Salle and Sherrie Levine and Jack Goldstein, there is a lot I took for granted.
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And all the things you once took for granted — like sleep, and sitting down to eat an actual meal — become the greatest luxuries.
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I'll never forget how my friends took for granted those well-meaning mothers of theirs and how lucky they were to have them.
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But I still want my children to know the rich cultural and religious traditions given to me — traditions that I took for granted.
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We felt compelled to explain in an issue brief what before nearly every American took for granted: The President must obey court orders.
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Many things young people took for granted or held dear are at risk, and the future seems much less familiar than it once did.
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Many voters are about to be made much more aware of specific government programs that they took for granted, or didn't even know about.
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"In my family, voting was a sacred responsibility, one which we never took for granted," Obama tweeted on Thursday to announce her latest endeavor.
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Systems decay, institutions and landmarks we took for granted vanish, swept over a precipice: the Saturn brand, the Republican Party, the glaciers of Greenland.
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Because the anchors, candidates and audience took for granted that the answers to both were yes, the seven-hour long event was refreshingly substantive.
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When I talk to fans, it just hits me at a greater level because they keep you grounded to what I took for granted.
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Then, with plenty of humor and can-do practicality, she rewrote every step to clarify those opaque instructions our homemaking forebears took for granted.
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Much that middle-class professionals took for granted in previous generations, including homeownership, decent health care, a comfortable retirement, is now out of reach.
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Our city is pretty poor, so I guess I just took for granted that I would always live approximate to poverty, if not IN poverty.
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"We took too many people for granted and African Americans, our most loyal constituency, we all too frequently took for granted," Perez said in Atlanta.
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As for me, I still live in Buffalo, and the people I work with live without many of the comforts I once took for granted.
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As her kids grew up, Pfeiffer "took for granted how nice it was to not be under the spotlight," she told the New York Times.
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Brinkman said it never occurred to her that Ferraro was unusual; she took for granted that it was normal for women to participate in politics.
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McConnell said he "took for granted" that House Democrats would be able to pass the resolution condemning anti-Semitism following controversial remarks by freshman Rep.
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The only trepidation was I think I took for granted how nice it was to not be under the spotlight and just having a life.
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"She had a staggering independence from all the conventions and was oblivious to everything that the vast majority of photographers took for granted," he explained.
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Things I took for granted are under grave threat: rule of law, tolerance, fidelity to the Constitution, commitment to truth, belief in science and education.
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Through the support of my family, friends, and music, I stopped focusing on my misfortunes and started prioritizing the blessings that I often took for granted.
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I have really low confidence in my math abilities, so I took for granted that the combinations that he asked me for added up to $48.
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The first world war happened because a generation of Victorian leaders took for granted the stable order that had prevailed in most of Europe for decades.
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Another day, another well-off older person reminding young people that our generation will probably always struggle to obtain the things our parents took for granted.
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What's new: Based on demographic changes, Republicans for the first time have authentic worries about Arizona, Georgia, Texas and other states they once took for granted.
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The unions will survive and may even experience a renaissance once they search their souls and remould themselves to attract members they once took for granted.
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The film took for granted a broad cultural tolerance, if not an appetite, for enigma, as well as the time and inclination for parsing interpretive mysteries.
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For millenniums Western philosophy took for granted the absolute distinction between the living and the nonliving, between nature and artifice, between non-sentient and sentient beings.
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Like others of his generation, he took for granted that he could study in other European countries and cross the Continent by rail without his passport.
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"I am embarrassed when I think how easily I took for granted my meetings with remarkable people," Kennedy Fraser wrote in Vogue of Ms. Stein's parties.
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Watching a movie and dissecting it scene by scene afterward with my sisters is one of my keenest pleasures, one I took for granted in childhood.
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Forty-one years into his marriage, George Shannon became better acquainted with a woman he once took for granted, and fell deeply in love with her.
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" But since then, he has "learned from her about her struggles and successes, the ingenuity required to accomplish simple daily tasks that I always took for granted.
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"This is a moment when the rights I took for granted sadly are being threatened," Michelle Smith said before showing the new collection for her line, Milly.
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We went through a hard time and I think people took for granted what we were bringing to the table—something that was revolutionary for the sport.
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He took for granted a world in which capital was brought to heel and trapped within national borders, so that egalitarian redistribution would not stir capital flight.
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Maybe things were different in an earlier, quieter era, before the days of pervasive amplification and before people took for granted having near-continuous connectivity to music.
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I see now that I took for granted that these parades would never build to anything truly threatening, and I think it's impossible to think that anymore.
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Cut off from homeownership — the principal avenue of wealth creation — African-Americans lost the opportunity to build the intergenerational wealth that white suburban families took for granted.
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We had all sorts from country to gospel to rock musicians come to our house so I had a lot of exposure, which I took for granted.
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Running has helped me come face-to-face with what I took for granted: I believed my eating disorder was a story that belonged in the past.
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" That was what people took for granted about Alcott as recently as 1999: that she was a commercial and feminine writer, and as such, she was "minor.
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But it doesn't change the fact that he and Bannon understand that the populist wing of the party has the enthusiasm that conservatives once took for granted.
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I came to appreciate Dallas more and all the things I took for granted like proximity to friends, family, wide open spaces, and a place to call home.
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The trend of declining business start-ups has worsened to the point that our children may never know the range of opportunity Americans, until recently, took for granted.
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The campaign against him was intended to suggest that his views threatened other rights to intimate choices that people took for granted regardless of their views on abortion.
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What I took for granted — the freedom to have agency over my body and life choices — is a right my daughters and their daughters may well be denied.
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I think - - the Trump election was a reaction to the subversion of things we took for granted as being safe, law and order, foreign policy, national defense and borders.
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They can make it hard to remember where home is, to recognize language and customs that we once took for granted and to figure out where we now belong.
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It is hard to walk past the barricades today without remembering America's innocence, and even harder to explain to our children the glasnost we took for granted back then.
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Perhaps more to the point, Labour under Mr. Corbyn failed to develop a really assertive, popular strategy for reviving the postindustrial regions it took for granted for too long.
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The three went their separate ways, but never got over the fact that the game they took for granted as kids had such an elitist reputation in the big city.
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The first great wave of women-led reform took for granted that women inhabited a noble, hygienically refined realm far above the base and corruption-prone system of
male politics.
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As with the JAMA study, outside experts such as Cohen complained the study took for granted that the diplomats had been attacked by some device and accordingly came to their conclusion.
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He simply wanted to improve the dismal living conditions of his countrymen, which mattered more to him than the Soviet Union's geopolitical status as a superpower, which he took for granted.
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Looking at the tracklist now there are a lot of songs that we maybe took for granted at the time that have now found themselves to be cult favorites or whatever.
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But the future seems much less familiar than it once did, and if last year taught us anything, it's that many of the things we took for granted are at risk.
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It jars Mr. Brown to realize that he may no longer have time to get around to everything he wished to do, a notion his young self blithely took for granted.
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What I'm getting at is many of the characters in this show—Dud and Ernie, in particular—are, however poorly, trying reconstruct the past, which they perhaps once took for granted.
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And I think its hard again to remember, but I think if you go back and look at some of the footage, we took for granted that he was a charismatic figure.
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I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted.
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And I really think I placed more importance on my relationships with my friends and my coach and my family, and that was something that I took for granted a few years ago.
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We're talking vacuums, space saving storage, command hooks — you know, the things that they probably took for granted while living at home (or the things they won't want to spend their own money on).
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This is what wakes him up: not the loss of face in front of his classmates, not the military failure, but the love he took for granted while trying to be someone he wasn't.
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The show was a success, but they figured that once Hillary Clinton won—something they took for granted as a foregone conclusion, and later had to own up to post-election—they'd move on.
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Walkability in a given pair of shoes, a concept I took for granted as a male, became a selling point as I switched aisles — except when it isn't, and I still buy them anyway.
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So the Wilkinsons are living a more acute version of our collective dilemma: longing for connections they once took for granted, terrified of making mistakes and unsure how to get through the coming months.
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At the moment, it's millennials who are accused of this kind of entitlement, despite their shrinking access to nice things — secure jobs, employer-provided health care, affordable housing — that baby boomers took for granted.
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I guarantee you it'll help you stand up a little straighter, feel a little braver, knowing that the things you joked about and even took for granted can be your secret weapons for your future.
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For decades, was the world's largest importer of waste — a status that many countries took for granted, going by the reaction to Beijing's surprise decision to stop taking in 24 types of scraps starting 2018.
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With four kids now ages 13 to 17 between us, we created a kind of modern version of the traditional network of aunts, uncles and cousins that many Americans took for granted in previous generations.
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This once overwhelmingly dominant bloc should have much to learn from the failure of Hillary Clinton and her Democratic team that so badly misjudged the temper of these times and the voters they took for granted.
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This missed opportunity to amass wealth that white Americans took for granted is evident to this day in a yawning black-white wealth gap and in worse health, living conditions and educational opportunities for African-Americans.
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Growing up, I think [I was mostly influenced by] my family and my dad—my dad went to French cooking school and has always home cooked all my meals, which is something I took for granted.
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The very idea of utopia—a place where everyone is happy—could not have occurred to people who took for granted that individuals have irreconcilable desires and ideals, and that conflict is therefore impossible to eliminate.
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"The stereotype of African-Americans in this country was that we weren't thinkers, but Hansberry was thinking, batting around ideas, putting forth 'what ifs' and challenging suppositions that everyone else took for granted," Ms. Jackson said.
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His impassioned analyses of racial disconnection was part of our connection; the historical failure of black and white to cohere became part of our personal coherence that, even as it grew, I never took for granted.
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William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of "The French Connection" (1971), observed that the police in that film, based on a true story, took for granted that they could do what they wished with criminal suspects.
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And when I was struggling with telling stories I wanted to tell in the ways I wanted to tell them every month, I'd bemoan the freedoms I took for granted working as a journalist in Canada.
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Not only would such a tweet get the focus and attention he wanted, it would have been based on an election narrative most of the news media and a lot of the public already took for granted.
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And after 13 months away from the fight game, Rousey's reliability and consistency—traits we took for granted—only look more impressive now that the kingdom she once ruled with an iron fist has descended into anarchy.
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But most were determined that the black people who had made the Old South rich now deserved the same rights their former owners took for granted—rights they knew would require thousands of federal troops to guarantee.
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For several weeks now—including since Labor Day, when most Americans truly began paying attention to the campaigns—these truths, which we all took for granted six months ago, have not been communicated to glancing news consumers.
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"Working with Yvon and his wife, and being a climber and skier, you begin to see that the natural world you took for granted was not as it seemed -- things were really beginning to break down," says Tompkins.
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And, of course, we were surrounded by an ur-culture in India that we loved and explored and took for granted, as young people do—while enjoying the foreigner's distance from India's own racial enmities and historical hatreds.
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Ever since Mr. Buttigieg was first elected in 2011, many in South Bend took for granted that he aspired to higher office, with the support of the local Democratic machine, and was carefully building a record of accomplishments.
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However, a defeated Biden, one who loses his fourth state out of four, one he (and everyone else) once took for granted, opens up the floodgates to his fellow moderates who will feign support while hiding their glee.
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"We took for granted the fact that the White House and the Department of Education supported accepting and advancing these rights, and we can't take that for granted anymore," said Michele Dauber, a professor at Stanford University Law School.
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It doesn't spell out what it and virtually every other influential institution in the country took for granted: The mainstream media, as we now think of it, imposed filters of reporting, fact-checking, and editing in deciding what was newsworthy.
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But we gain virtually none of the benefits of that fame, none of the glamor or the institutional support to help deal with the invasiveness of celebrity and how it can eat away at every boundary you ever took for granted.
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Soaring incomes, the opening ofIKEA stores and a mushrooming of cafés, bars and nightclubs in Moscow were not taken as an achievement of the state, for which they should be grateful, but as a norm which they took for granted.
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"It's hard to pick out any concrete example, but you talk to these people and you get bombarded with all these different perspectives on things that you just sort of took for granted as a universal thought process," Wallick says.
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It didn't matter that he lived in Ohio and I in a dreary town in the West Midlands; I was experiencing a small slice of normality that all my peers took for granted, and to which my access was otherwise blocked.
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The more viable and practical screening and treatment access points we put in place, the higher the likelihood of minimized chaos, crowded waiting lines, and an expedited return the social freedoms that we all took for granted will become possible again.
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Hungry City 7 Photos View Slide Show ' Growing up in Hokkaido, Japan, Yudai Kanayama took for granted the uni (sea urchin) that makes its home in the island's cool, pristine waters, its hard, round shell hidden inside a crown of thorns.
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But there's more to it than that: For progressives, moderates and "Never Trump" Republicans, the political order they long took for granted — defined by polarization, yes, but also by a commitment to basic principles of democracy and decency — is suddenly gone.
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The practical result is the need for 24-hour care, no privacy for any bodily functions or getting dressed, or anything else that I took for granted, including my freedom, not the political freedom, but freedom to use my body to live life.
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To some extent Circa 2345 is just your standard "our generation destroyed the Earth, and the far future looks back on our luxurious lives in wonderment at what we took for granted while cursing our stupidity for letting it go" science fiction.
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This is a significant loss for people who may not have used the site anymore, but took for granted that it would remain an online scrapbook of the years when Myspace was the go-to social network, including for musicians promoting their work.
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It was a weird thing to have to finish the book, realizing that everything I took for granted as I was writing the book was wrong, and that something else had happened, and what these female creators were doing was almost more important.
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Instead of going along with the received wisdom that the Jedi are virtuous crusaders for peace and justice, and that imperial oppressors have to be fought at all costs, Mr Johnson keeps questioning and mocking everything we took for granted about the series.
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EXO Don't Mess Up My TempoK-pop fans aren't used to having to wait long for new music, a luxury that many realized they took for granted during the year EXO took to release their November comeback, Don't Mess Up My Tempo.
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I took for granted I'd be back on skates quickly and when that didn't happen I had to push myself so hard – even with as little as one hour's sleep at times – just to get back to playing the sport I love.
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I have refrained so far from physical description of these women, in part because I grew impatient with Gabriel's references to their looks—although, in fairness, she is reflecting an emphasis that her subjects took for granted every day, as women still do.
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He was confronted with the fact that his efforts as a young senator would have ended one of the country's few attempts to make equal treatment a reality, to give black students the kind of education that white students took for granted.
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Now is also a good time to reach out to family and ask for recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation—the meals you took for granted when we could all eat together, in person—and craft a family cookbook.
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We just needed to be at the center of a story, which would include all the complexities of human subjectivity, not just the good but the bad, the three-dimensional fullness that white people took for granted with the privilege of being individuals.
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He (or she) will not be put to the same test of public persuasion that predecessors took for granted (including those, like Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan, who carried out secret wars in order not to seek authorization that they feared would be denied).
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But he took for granted the human brains behind these inventions, which are three times the size of those of humanity's closest living relatives, the great apes, and are thus as characteristic of people as trunks are of elephants or humps are of camels.
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You called Peggy as an accidental feminist, and one thing that's fascinating about Offred in the book is that she probably wouldn't have defined herself as a feminist either, but she ends up in this situation that makes her realize what she took for granted.
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But increasingly, top foreign policymakers from Germany to Iraq and Canada to Asia are contemplating a period when US leadership that many took for granted may be less evident in global affairs, after Trump turned his back on multilateral trade deals and downplayed multinational institutions and agreements.
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"They are the majority, and they don't initially realize how special that is," said Mr. Degadillo, who also worked for years at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he regularly spoke to students who missed the kinds of food and music they took for granted at home.
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"We took for granted for a long time that we had a licence to operate, that society wanted big companies to exist and I think under the pressure of the financial crisis and the spread of information via social media, that mandate is getting weaker and weaker," he explained.
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Rather it's because the Patriots are the actual thing that his grifter's instincts and "Great Again" sloganeering are constantly trying to evoke — a dependably, reliably excellent American institution, of the kind that people in the pre-Vietnam era took for granted, and that our own era struggles to reproduce.
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The letter to the Muthanas disputing their daughter's claim to citizenship took for granted that it was simply the right of the executive branch to decide, without any hearing, due process, or trial, that a woman born in the United States, the recipient of two U.S. passports, wasn't a U.S. citizen.
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If the film feels tilted toward Charlie in its storytelling, it's because Nicole has already done a lot of figuring herself out before the film even starts, whereas Charlie still has to enact his midlife crisis onscreen as he rethinks what he took for granted and how little he actually compromised.
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Unlike some investigations of the Iraq War in the United States that attempted to point blame at anyone other than the political class who actually launched the war, the Chilcot inquiry took for granted that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his senior advisers bore the primary responsibility for the disaster.
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To the Editor: With the election over, the hand-wringing in full swing and political appointees emerging who do not reflect my old-line (pre-Tea Party) Republican values, what can I do to weather the expected storm of assault on some basic human rights I took for granted in our nation?
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Isner accounts for 10 of the 26 third-round appearances that American men have had at major tournaments since Roddick retired at the 26 United States Open, and Isner's six-year tenancy in the top 24 has been, more often than not, the country's sole representation in an echelon it once took for granted.
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Most prognosticators took for granted Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE would be the one to break the tie, thus taking right-to-work off the table for decades.
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I've never seen a moth snowstorm, but McCarthy's book reminded me again and again of the seemingly unspectacular profusion that I took for granted as a child: from the constant flapping of moths against the windows of our cottage at night to regular stops on long car journeys to clean the insect debris from the windshield.
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"Startups will need to create contract-based legal structures to replace the free flows of data we took for granted under the European system," Coadec writes, noting that the UK's data protection agency is advising startups to look at model clauses, binding corporate rules, codes of conduct or certification mechanisms as alternatives for their data flows.
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It led him to speak valiantly against the lynching, bombing and shooting of black people who merely wanted what white people took for granted: a cup of coffee at any lunch counter, a room at any hotel they could afford, a drink at any water fountain they passed, a seat on a bus wherever they pleased and a desk in the nearest schoolhouse.
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Not since the iniquity of Hitler and Mussolini have we witnessed such a resurgence of hatred against the Other, even as the United States — one of the countries that led the fight against fascism — is now governed by men who would turn back the clock, and use repression rather than persuasion to obliterate so many gains and glories we took for granted.
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That to me was a revelation because I just took for granted that everything came easy to David, but really he had a lot of opposition, because he had a family to feed and his Mom and Dad probably didn't want him to be a struggling artist, and if it wasn't for the grants that he received we would not have David Lynch today.
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But if you asked for the single thing that returned me to the sleep patterns I once took for granted during those early bouts with insomnia, I'd tell you it was a podcast called Sleep With Me. Though currently one of the most popular podcasts around, back in 2014 it only had a handful of episodes, which I found via a desperate iTunes search.
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It centers queer people and queer ways of being beautiful, especially in a political context where beauty is narrowly defined or what's considered important or valuable is narrowly defined, and drag always offers a different option, or a variety of different options… I took for granted how much drag is still about play, and how playing and being light about your identity and yourself is actually a form of resistance, too.
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This also explains why the scenes in "The Handmaid's Tale" that feel most haunting today are the flashbacks in which Offred remembers her former life in America, when she and her friends took for granted the rights and freedoms they enjoyed, when people reassured one another that whatever emergency measures taken by the new government (in the name of protecting against Islamic terrorism) were temporary and that normalcy would soon return.
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In this unsentimental, deeply poignant book, Sujatha Gidla gives us stories of her family and friends in India — stories she had thought of as "just life," until she moved to America at the age of 26 and realized that the "terrible reality of caste" did not determine one's identity in other countries, that being born "an untouchable" did not entail the sort of ritualized restrictions and indignities she took for granted at home.
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In fact, if anything, plays depicting gay life have recently spawned their own version of the "issue" play: specifically the challenges inherent in becoming parents, as in the recent plays "Dada Woof Papa Hot" and the more overtly comic "Steve," both of which explore how the freedom to marry and the ability to raise children have complicated the liberations (and, in some ways, the indulgences) that some gay men once took for granted.
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"We unfortunately, I think, stand at a crossroads now, a time when we took for granted some of that progress, didn't tend to our democracies, and our alliances and our international institutions as well as we should have, didn't update them and adapt them to new circumstances, and as people started feeling insecure or frustrated because of economic changes, technological changes, demographic changes, we got this backlash and reaction to that order," Obama said.
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