Hostage Quotes - Page 6

• I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

  Elton John

  Independent, People, Identity

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• I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Believe, Goal, Long

  "Joe Wenke Interviews: Rita Mae Brown on being a Lambda Literary Pioneer". booktrib.com. May 31, 2015.

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• I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Italian, Grieving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

  Kinky Friedman

  Trying, Results, Situation

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.48, Macmillan

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• I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

  F. L. Lucas

  Son, Wife, Fortune

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• There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

  Ehud Barak

  Brave, Risk, Lines

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• If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

  Tom Cole

  Thinking, People, Risk

  "Rep. Cole: I'm not for raising tax rates on anyone". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2012.

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• In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Get Away, Naturalist, Has Beens

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• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Military, People, Shooting

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Media, Iran, Play

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Team, Different, Six

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• Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Sarcastic, Character, Doe

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• It's hard when I get to the end of the movie and am held hostage and am supposed to be very upset and the funniest things I've ever heard in my life are coming out. All I can do is pretend there's something really important behind me to hide my face from it.

  Brie Larson

  Upset, Important, Faces

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

  Jill Stein

  Generations, Debt, Students

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Iraq, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

  RuPaul

  Men, Thinking, Hysteria

  Interview with T Lo, tomandlorenzo.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

  Cal Thomas

  Soldier, Devil, May

  "Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap just a pact with the devil?" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

  William Safire

  Taken, Differences, United States

  "Tar Baby Strikes Again" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 1986.

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• the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  War, Fall, Men

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• May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Blood, People

  "Pope's Christmas message: Iraq and Syria have suffered too long" by Susanna Capelouto, www.cnn.com. December 25, 2014.

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• I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.

  Chuck Hagel

  Life, Thinking, Risk

  "Lawmakers defend failed hostage rescue mission in Yemen" By Sara Fischer, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2014.

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• Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Views, Want, Littles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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