Taken Quotes

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.