Taken Advantage Quotes - Page 2

• American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

  Emilio Pucci

  Taken, Opportunity, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski

  Eminem

  Taken, Advantage, Monica

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• We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Leader, Advantage

  Source: www.economist.com

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• We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by Hillary Clinton's people, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. That's what we learned.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, People, Looks

  Source: time.com

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• People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Taken, Issues, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Taken, Sadness

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• When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Law, People

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Taken, Artist, Knowing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

  Bill Goldberg

  Taken, Wrestling, Numbers

  "Goldberg wrestling for fun". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

  Amanda Bynes

  Taken, Average, People

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• For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Brain, Century

  "NOVA scienceNOW: How Does the Brain Work?", www.pbs.org. September 14, 2011.

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• 'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if someone hears an evil saying, that is, one which harms him, and in his turn, he wants to repeat it, he must fight in order not to say it. Or if someone is taken advantage of and he bears it, without retaliation at all, then he is giving his life for his neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Taken, Fighting

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• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  Hannah Arendt

  Freedom, Taken, Progress

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.

  Julia Quinn

  Taken, Jealous, Men

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• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

  George Monbiot

  Powerful, Taken, Government

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• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  Olympia Snowe

  Taken, Groups, Campaigns

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• The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

  Benjamin Graham

  Taken, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Competition

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• I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

  David Levithan

  Taken, Order, People

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.92, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

  Marta Andreasen

  Taken, Opportunity, People

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• I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Taken, Years

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

  Clint Eastwood

  Taken, Break, Advantage

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2005.

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• It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

  Anne Hathaway

  Taken, Gossip, Might

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• It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

  Katherine Heigl

  Taken, Honest, Easy

  "Heigl’s Anatomy". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. January 2008.

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