It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

It’s so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I’ve got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I’ve taken better care of my illness.

I’m like a slow starter. Everything I’ve done has built, or has taken a while.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

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The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with their past.

Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that’s what I plan on doing with all mine. They’re not necessarily my secrets to tell. I’m the gatekeeper of other people’s secrets.

I’ve taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Darkness… When everything that you know and love… is taken from you so harshly… all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge… and no one can save you.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever – blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

I know a man who doesn’t pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I’m taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

I don’t remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It’s surreal.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

I’ve never turned down an autograph request. I’ve never not taken a picture with someone.

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

And I don’t believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable – they should be taken absolutely seriously.

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If people don’t sleep with me I just rape them. Because right is not given but taken.

McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who’d had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts...

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I just am a huge fan of PBS. They’ve taken great risks from great shows.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for ‘capturing and robbing us.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn’t get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.