#taken

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#backgrounds #country #different #different backgrounds #diversity

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ↗

— Fred Allen

#annoy #especially #i #like #long

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#dead #eyes #good #i #i see

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#i #mexico #much #music #sounds

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#again #completely #crash #determined #everybody

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. ↗

— Will Arnett

#away #bit #come #escape #get

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#being #confronted #day #every #first

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love. ↗

— Ari Berk

#the-undertaken-trilogy #death

Rather than ask yourself if you are correct, it is far more realistic to think about how you are mistaken. Most humans have not been designed to be right very often. ↗

— Kouhei Kadono

#humans #mistaken #design

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#granted #taken #taken for granted #talent #your