Dorothy Thompson Quotes

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

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• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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  • Taken
  • Literature

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
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• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
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  • Security

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • You
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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  • Taken
  • Fact

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Old
  • Ancient

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
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• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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  • System
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• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Easy
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• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

  

  Laura Linney
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  • Picture

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • High
  • You

• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
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  • Army

• ...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
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  • Friends
  • Support

• Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Taken

• Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Fame

• I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Career
  • Boy
  • Brave

• When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

  

  Dorothy Thompson
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