Taken Quotes
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
Benjamin Cardozo
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In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
Dalai Lama
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If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
William Julius Wilson
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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
John Linder
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From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
W. H. Auden
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When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.
Aziz Ansari
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
Pierce Brosnan
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Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
Joseph Brodsky
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Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.
Dennis Prager
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Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.
Patrick Henry
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As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
John Malkovich
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When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.
Joseph Morgan
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.
Cynthia Heimel
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How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.
Eric Mangini
