Taken Quotes - Page 27

• Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

  Kanye West

  Born, Away From You

  "Kanye West: I’m Amazing". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

  Robert Hass

  Revenge, Military, Engineering

  Robert Hass (2007). “Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005”, HarperCollins

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• Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home. (Incidentally, this ought to prove once and for all what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years? It hasn't taken us 10 weeks.)

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Home, Frustration

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• In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.

  Peter Medawar

  Teacher, Order, Data

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• Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

  Larry Hagman

  Sweet, Nice, Boys

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• Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Brain, Lines, Misery

  "Joy 24x7". Book by Jaggi Vasudev, 2008.

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• We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.

  David Whyte

  Pain, Distance, Reality

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• A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Should, Importance

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• A goal is a dream taken seriously.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Goal

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• The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

  Dennis Prager

  School, Law, Media

  "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

  Petrarch

  Pride

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• No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

  Russell Peters

  Children, Roots, Age

  "The famous comedian most Americans don't know". Interview with Alicia W. Stewart, www.cnn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

  Russell Peters

  Country, People, Performing

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• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  Felicity Kendal

  Girl, Father, School

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• I think about never letting anybody get the ball in my zone, about being tough. If the ball is taken away from me, I'm the first one to take it back. You can rise to higher levels depending on your level of pride.

  Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

  Pride, Thinking, Balls

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• Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

  Robert Bateman

  Color, Usa, Boots

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• A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Tired, Issues

  "Angry Politics: 'Voters Gone Wild' in 2006" by Larry Sabato and David Wasserman, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 17, 2006.

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• Obviously I've taken drugs.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Drug

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• The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

  Eric Topol

  Orbit, Cocoons, World

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• I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  Britney Spears

  Mother, Blessed, Safety

  "A defiant Britney Spears takes on the tabloids". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2006.

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• I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

  John Steinbeck

  Hangover, Punishment, Consequence

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• I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that gives me freedom but also still goes back to the idea of craft.

  Matana Roberts

  Hands, Ideas, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

  Matana Roberts

  Doe, Want, Matter

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Years, Months

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Past, Years

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.201, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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