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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield
Time
Remember
Father
Kidnapped
Proof
Finger
More
He
Piece
Said
Wanted
Sent
Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.
Uzodinma Iweala
Wait
Those
Kidnapped
Kidnapping
Rupture
Long-Term
Return
Causes
End
Psyche
Who
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.
Peter Benenson
Prison
Way
Those
Kidnapped
Tortured
Disappeared
Failed
Were
Candle
Burns
Us
Shot
Rescue
Who
Whom
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
Parents
Action
Kidnapped
Out
Snapped
Room
Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
Chico Buarque
Music
Me
Kidnapped
Kind
While
He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
Martin Bashir
Kidnapped
Berlin
Photographers
About
Potentially
Attached
He
Concerned
Were
Covered
His
Up
Very
Being
Children
Why
Zoo
My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.
Mia Maestro
You
Parents
Kidnapped
Could
Because
Were
Get
Exploding
Bombs
Streets
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver
Love
Important
Cute
Defined
Kidnapped
Plot
Characters
Rarely
Developing
Important Roles
Precious
Roles
Being
Children
Fiction
Dying
Literary
Literary Fiction
Create
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
Claire Danes
Character
Kidnapped
Terminator
Production
You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.
David R. Ellis
Good
You
Son
Comedy
Husband
Breath
Ease
Kidnapped
Kim
Some
Take
Tension
Around
Up
Get
Being
Movie
Centered
Which
Really
Moments
Jeopardy
Her
Chance
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
Derek Luke
You
Waiting
Daughter
Looking
Action
Busy
Everybody
President
Kidnapped
He
Look
Him
Calls
Behold
Room
Across
Help
I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.
Elizabeth Smart
Rain
Grateful
Kidnapped
Something
Drink
Had
Because
Meant
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
Death
You
Several
Kidnapped
Had
Know
Calls
Iraq
Very
Close
May
Where
Experiences
Incident
Near
Nearly
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
Gad Saad
Culture
Weary
Protection
Parents
Our
Kidnapped
Religious
Someone
Support
Individuals
Institutional
Said
Am
Lebanon
Were
Persecution
Discrimination
Escaped
Ethos
Who
Fully
Beirut
Whose
Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
Gary Rossington
People
Heritage
Soldiers
Kidnapped
Kinda
Through
Dixie
Like
Tradition
Years
Southern
Flag
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
Ha-Joon Chang
Work
People
Problem
Free
Market
Market Economy
Kidnapped
Would
Would-Be
Free Market
Economy
Employ
Because
Were
Lot
Very
Child
Labour
Children
Want
Anyone
Against
Them
Century
Your
Foundations
When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
Hannibal Buress
Family
You
People
Comedy
Tough
Young
Say
Kidnapped
Released
Circumstances
Killer
People Say
Had
Know
Because
How
Still
Doing
Very
Five-Minute
Get
Did
After
Them
Even
Enjoyed
Start
Started
Kept
Set
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
Jane Goodall
Money
Giving
Enough
Enough Money
Kidnapped
Hiding
Students
Instead
Were
Trying
Accused
Them
Rebels
Believed
Save
Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.
John Lithgow
Own
Kidnapped
Inside
My Own
Like
Been
Role
Whenever
Body
Play
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
Lynsey Addario
Car
Accident
Valley
Kidnapped
Sunni
Driver
Taliban
Occupation
Covering
Iraq
Afghanistan
While
Pakistan
Car Accident
Injured
Near
I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target.
Manal al-Sharif
Alone
Woman
Walk
Face
Kidnapped
Arabia
Find
Open
Almost
Got
Am
Cover
Normal
Target
Trying
Taxi
Street
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
Meg Rosoff
Me
People
Overwhelming
Sense
Kidnapped
Kids
Kind
City
Paranoia
Paranoid
About
Seem
More
Drinks
Hysteria
Parties
Than
Being
Suburbs
Much
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
Olivia Wilde
Writing
Journalist
Kidnapped
Kids
About
Doing
Festival
Afghanistan
Script
Film
Now
Film Festival
This Islam business kidnapped me.
Oriana Fallaci
Me
Business
Islam
Kidnapped
Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.
Patty Hearst
War
You
Group
Statements
States
Kidnapped
About
Know
Well
Terrorist
Were
United
United States
Published
With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.
Timothy Hutton
Day
Every Day
Speak
Fighting
Every
Everything
Guiding
Kidnapped
About
Seem
Seemed
Had
Sure
Hand
Committee
Show
Large
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