When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.

- Anthony Marra

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

- Abdullah Ibrahim

I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.

- Ahna O'Reilly

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

- Auberon Herbert

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.

- Alexandra Kerry

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

- Alexander Chase

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

- Abbey Lee Kershaw

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

- Anthony Mackie

From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.

- Andrea Seigel

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

- Andre Holland

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

- Alexander Hamilton

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

- Ann Romney

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

- Andy Roddick

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

- Avicii

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

- ASAP Ferg

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

- Alphonse Karr

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

- Alan Moore

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

- Annie Leibovitz

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

- Alicia Keys

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

- Alice Walker