Taken Quotes
  
  
  
	
	- 
	
	
	
		The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hanna Rosin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		'Tis immortality to die aspiring,As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Chapman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keith Olbermann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orrin Hatch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bo Jackson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I practiced law for 10 years, and I always admired the lawyers who were not afraid to take unpopular cases. And I never had the guts to do that. I was playing it safe. I was trying to make a living. And I just never volunteered for a really tough case, and there were some of them I should've taken. And I admired the lawyers who did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Grisham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
	- 
	
	
	
		In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who's been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Wood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedensreich Hundertwasser
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matthew James Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Catlin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oliver Ellsworth