#taken

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#american idol #idol #life #over #taken

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

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

— Fred Allen

#annoy #especially #i #like #long

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

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#belong #complete #disclosure #disguised #does

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! ↗

— Jane Austen

#dear #forms #how #imaginations #mistaken

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence. ↗

— Peter Berg

#confidence #good #good actors #her #i

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

#divested #easily #how #i #i can

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#believed #immediately #refusal #rude #soft