Stolen Quotes - Page 16

• Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

  Craig Ferguson

  Band, Remember, Flocks

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• We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

  Marine Le Pen

  Determination, Self, Allowing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, America, Presidential

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• Riches can be stolen-not richness.

  Rishi Prabhakar

  Riches, Richness

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• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Football, Workout, School

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  J. B. Smoove

  Brain, Next, Gears

  "JB Smoove, comic and torturer". TheWrap.com Interview, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2012.

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• In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

  Edouard Boubat

  Kissing, Way, Facts

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• I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Hiking, Shade

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary people. The money is spent on the military, stolen by the elite.

  Zoya Phan

  Military, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the laptop has not been hacked, and there has been no leak of personal data such as unreleased music, photographs, designs, videos or any other personal files. The leak today of the unreleased track 'Awesome' was unrelated and completely coincidental.

  Malik Yusef

  Data, Track, Design

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• Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

  Dan John

  Dear, Please, Has Beens

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• Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little

  Atsushi

  Heart, Thinking, Littles

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• Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Law, Finance, Theft

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

  Peter MacNicol

  Two, Identity

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• I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Ideas, Found

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• There could never really be justice on stolen land.

  KRS-One

  Land, Justice

  Song: Sound of da Police, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Right now, it's everywhere I want to be.

  Scott Wood

  Want, Cards, Visa

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• There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Book, Writing, Drawing

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• From Hillary Clinton, in her own double-talking words, and from others, we understand that our children have been stolen from us by the state and by the psychiatric establishment.

  Michael Savage

  Children, Talking, Clinton

  Source: whale.to

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• Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

  Ellen Bass

  Cracks, Tiles, Hips

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something.

  Zoe Kazan

  Mom, Tears, Cards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Country, Art, Dark

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