Taken Quotes - Page 28

• A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Luck, Advertising, Politician

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Regret, Responsibility, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think women are often taken for granted.

  Sheila Johnson

  Thinking, Taken For Granted, Granted

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.

  Pedro Noguera

  Real, Moving, California

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

  Denis Hayes

  Technology, Government, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Awards, Japan, West

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.

  William Finnegan

  Two, Perspective, African American

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

  Akhil Sharma

  Memories, Character, Notes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  Karen Elson

  Thinking, Dancing, Skins

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Champion, Trying, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us.

  Astra Taylor

  Dream, Artist, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.

  Sam Amidon

  Song, Fire, Three

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Brother, Artist

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Having kids doesn't mean they would have taken care o you.

  Michelle Singletary

  Mean, Kids, Care

  "Color of Money Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Roles, Said

  "The year of Gillian Anderson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2016.

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• Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were taken, it's rapidly changing. There isn't the same after dark frisson of excitement about the place any more.

  Derek Ridgers

  Dark, Nightlife, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

  Derek Ridgers

  Book, Dark, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

  Boots Riley

  Song, Art, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about.

  Jamel Shabazz

  People, Goal, Majority

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

  Joel Stein

  Thinking, People, Movement

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore.

  Simon Cowell

  Dad, Kids, Years

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• At issue here is a basic law which enables the Supreme Court to quash laws in extreme cases. Up until now, this right of the Supreme Court was not mentioned anywhere, but was just taken. At the same time, we want to enable the Knesset to overrule decisions of the Supreme Court.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Law, Issues, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about other people. None of my stories were written with ill-intent towards the other people in them, even though I doubt people will believe that about "Adrien Brody."

  Marie Calloway

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.

  Chris Hedges

  Party, Class, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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