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• It's the flip side of illegal success. This man [Pablo Escobar ] turned a small-time drug thing into a large industry. An international, successful industry. And he almost took a country, Columbia, he took it almost hostage, took over it. It was incredible.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Successful, Men

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Fate, Phrases

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.381, Vintage

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• Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Children, Commitment

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.49, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

  Madeline Miller

  Husband, Home, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

  Mike Carey

  Kids, Dark, Night

  "All His Engines". Graphic novel by Mike Carey, January 2005.

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

  Pierre Salinger

  Names, America, People

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• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ambition, Past

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• President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

  Ted Koppel

  Morning, Night, People

  "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

  Terry Waite

  Together, Exit, Pieces

  1986 Interviewed on ABC news, 3 Nov.

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• Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Mirrors, Cells

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• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  A. A. Gill

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Bed, Finals

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

  Murray Rothbard

  Play, Hostage Crisis, Media

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• Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

  Carrie Fisher

  Jobs, Party, Way

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• I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage.

  Samantha Bee

  Wife, Rude, Next

  Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 9, 2016.

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• Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Mean, Dinner Table

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl

  Kelley Armstrong

  Enough

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• It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Navy

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• At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

  Stephen King

  School, Class, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason why no one had spoken to [Iranians] for the last years is because they sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, Al Qaeda, 9/11. The last time anyone spoke to the Iranians was when Ronald Reagan said, 'I've just been elected and you better let our hostages go or you guys are absolutely screwed'.

  Eric Bolling

  Years, Guy, Als

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.

  Scott Dikkers

  Pet

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.189, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

  Horace Mann

  Parent, Sacred, Causes

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.184

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• Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

  Gregory Maguire

  Drama, Soul, Suffering

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Want, Killing

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.207, Penguin

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