Taken Quotes
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Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.
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These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
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Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
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I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.
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Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.
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If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
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I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.
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Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
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When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.
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I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
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For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
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I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic.
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His long struggle with physical passion was almost over, and, as with many other great sensualists, its place had been taken by an obsession with death.
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I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
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Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?
