Taken Quotes

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

[People] want to see our veterans taken care of, because they are not, they are being absolutely mistreated. There are many things they want to see. There are many points of anger in this country.

[Establishment] raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away out of our country never to return unless I'm elected president.

We're going to give [veterans] the right to see their private doctor, get taken care of it, perhaps the private or public hospital.

Our jobs are being taken out by the deal that Hillary Clinton's husband signed, NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever. Our jobs are being sucked out of our economy.

Hillary Clinton is taken in massive amounts of money from foreign countries and other things.

In America, our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move.

I think Obamacare has now taken over almost from regulation, which is ridiculous what's happening with overregulation, as the biggest single problem for opening and keeping businesses going.

We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base.

Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had, I think, with the church. And this was his way of silencing the church.

It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them very badly, but we're going to work very hard on health and health care.

The politicians in America are all taken over by the lobbyists. I really believe the lobbyists keep them shut up because China and Chinese companies have all got tremendous lobbyists.

I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy.

We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

I just love making sounds. Anything that made a sound, as a kid I was just taken back by and would sit with it for ages and just try and make all different sounds on it.

Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

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.

I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.

As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.