Taken Quotes

• I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Assuming

• I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • Happy
  • Taken
  • Destiny

• Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Fire
  • Context

• The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Sex

• Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

  

  James Gleick
  • Light
  • Taken

• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Family
  • Today
  • Care

• By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Taken

• Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.

  

  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
  • Spirit
  • Rap
  • Cameras

• I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Different
  • Taken

• Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

  

  Robert Frost
  • War
  • Poetry
  • Notice

• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Teenager

• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Money
  • Paradise
  • Gangsters

• I do think that there is something about an intelligent, strong woman who also needs to be taken care of that will attract a certain kind of man sometimes. And that relationship is interesting on screen. Bad relationships are more interesting than good relationships to watch.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Strong

• A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Discourage

• There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Taken

• I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

  

  John Bolton
  • Up
  • American
  • War

• I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Makes

• I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Pain
  • Taken

• I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Taken

• We would not have invaded a country that did not attack us. We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families. We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

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