Taken Quotes
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I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
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Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
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Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
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I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.
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I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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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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Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.
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Winning gold and three silver medals at the Paralympic games is something I'll never forget, but I knew deep down there was still more work to do. I had to continue to redefine what was possible and get back everything that was taken away from me.
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I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.
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Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.
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I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
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If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
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The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
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In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it has in your experience.
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The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.
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I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.
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Using the correct apps can completely change how your photos look. It's really exciting because once you've already taken a good photo, it can become 10 times better if you use the right combination of apps. My favorites are VSCO Cam, Afterlight, Facetune and SKRWT.
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I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
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Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
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House Republicans have taken the lead in providing America with price stability and a bold plan for this nation's energy future.
