Quotes about Owned

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink. Votes: 3

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me. Votes: 1

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' Votes: 1

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. Votes: 1

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria! Votes: 1

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Votes: 1

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Votes: 1

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Votes: 1

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live. Votes: 1

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. Votes: 1

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. Votes: 1

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. Votes: 1

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. Votes: 1

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. Votes: 1

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. Votes: 1

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Votes: 1

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. Votes: 1

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than 拢40. Votes: 1

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! Votes: 1

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. Votes: 1

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight. Votes: 1

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median. Votes: 1

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy? Votes: 1

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. Votes: 1

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it. Votes: 1

When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family. Votes: 1

Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy. Votes: 1

Songs aren't owned by anyone. Votes: 0

I've owned mopeds in the past. Votes: 0

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs. Votes: 0

I felt I was owned by possessions. Votes: 0

He who owns little is little owned. Votes: 0

Social media is not owned by marketing. Votes: 0

I am truly independently owned and operated. Votes: 0

I dont want to be owned by anyone. Votes: 0

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon. Votes: 0

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. Votes: 0

My family never owned a home. We leased. Votes: 0

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma. Votes: 0

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable. Votes: 0

There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry. Votes: 0

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people. Votes: 0

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn. Votes: 0

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. Votes: 0

No former player has owned a team in baseball. Votes: 0

Make every decision as if you owned the company. Votes: 0

I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses. Votes: 0

My first record I owned was by Les Paul. Votes: 0

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews... Votes: 0

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. Votes: 0

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. Votes: 0

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. Votes: 0

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. Votes: 0

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis? Votes: 0

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation. Votes: 0

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy. Votes: 0

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God. Votes: 0

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day. Votes: 0

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded. Votes: 0

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions. Votes: 0

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world. Votes: 0

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.' Votes: 0

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Votes: 0

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Votes: 0

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album. Votes: 0

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs. Votes: 0

Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. Votes: 0

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into. Votes: 0

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned Votes: 0

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. Votes: 0

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that. Votes: 0

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. Votes: 0

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. Votes: 0

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. Votes: 0

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases. Votes: 0

Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #‎ career ! Votes: 0

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned Votes: 0

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years Votes: 0

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. Votes: 0

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it. Votes: 0

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. Votes: 0

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. Votes: 0

A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful. Votes: 0

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. Votes: 0

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn't imagine belonging to anyone else. Votes: 0

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else. Votes: 0

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. Votes: 0

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty. Votes: 0

The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out. Votes: 0

The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out. Votes: 0

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife. Votes: 0

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. Votes: 0

Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day. Votes: 0

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense. Votes: 0

What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you. Votes: 0

Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner! Votes: 0

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland. Votes: 0

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned. Votes: 0

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new. Votes: 0

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. Votes: 0

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference. Votes: 0

I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well. Votes: 0

When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel Votes: 0

She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted. Votes: 0

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them. Votes: 0

No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog. Votes: 0

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone Votes: 0

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. Votes: 0

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. Votes: 0

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. Votes: 0

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went. Votes: 0

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces. Votes: 0

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites. Votes: 0

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove. Votes: 0

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies. Votes: 0

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. Votes: 0

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. Votes: 0

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. Votes: 0

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Votes: 0

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away. Votes: 0

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. Votes: 0

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold. Votes: 0

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. Votes: 0

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. Votes: 0

There are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews. Votes: 0

We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year. Votes: 0

Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God. Votes: 0

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. Votes: 0

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future. Votes: 0

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group. Votes: 0

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon. Votes: 0

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. Votes: 0

When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores. Votes: 0

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it... Votes: 0

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. Votes: 0

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet. Votes: 0

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet. Votes: 0

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it. Votes: 0

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned. Votes: 0

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff. Votes: 0

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own. Votes: 0

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual. Votes: 0

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoosbut we never saw his wife. Votes: 0

The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned. Votes: 0

A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby Votes: 0

Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned. Votes: 0

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit. Votes: 0

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. Votes: 0

Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. Votes: 0

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them. Votes: 0

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it. Votes: 0

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. Votes: 0

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. Votes: 0

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor Votes: 0

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. Votes: 0

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife. Votes: 0

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. Votes: 0

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom. Votes: 0

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm. Votes: 0

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. Votes: 0

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all. Votes: 0

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. Votes: 0

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes. Votes: 0

Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting. Votes: 0

Bowls have become network-owned, commercial enterprises, in some cases, pitting average teams in money-losing bowls for the benefit of a few. Votes: 0

In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses. Votes: 0

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are. Votes: 0

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing. Votes: 0

I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee. Votes: 0

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Votes: 0

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. Votes: 0

I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight. Votes: 0

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. Votes: 0

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. Votes: 0

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned. Votes: 0

While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned. Votes: 0

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. Votes: 0

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. Votes: 0

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. Votes: 0

My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me. Votes: 0

I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me. Votes: 0

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. Votes: 0

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? Votes: 0

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. Votes: 0

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones. Votes: 0

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust. Votes: 0

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television. Votes: 0

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. Votes: 0

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then. Votes: 0

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem. Votes: 0

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams. Votes: 0

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul. Votes: 0

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. Votes: 0

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned. Votes: 0

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were. Votes: 0

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. Votes: 0

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. Votes: 0

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis Votes: 0

On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep. Votes: 0

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me. Votes: 0

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years. Votes: 0

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared. Votes: 0

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. Votes: 0

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men. Votes: 0

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that. Votes: 0

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray. Votes: 0

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done. Votes: 0

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. Votes: 0

The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel. Votes: 0

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. Votes: 0

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done. Votes: 0

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums. Votes: 0

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. Votes: 0

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine. Votes: 0

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. Votes: 0

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. Votes: 0

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray. Votes: 0

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations. Votes: 0

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood." Votes: 0

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood. Votes: 0

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada. Votes: 0

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank. Votes: 0

I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me. Votes: 0

Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done. Votes: 0

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood. Votes: 0

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder. Votes: 0

You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible. Votes: 0

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men. Votes: 0

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. Votes: 0

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. Votes: 0

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Votes: 0

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me. Votes: 0

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. Votes: 0

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love. Votes: 0

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. Votes: 0

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise. Votes: 0

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business. Votes: 0

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933. Votes: 0

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk. Votes: 0

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about. Votes: 0

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did. Votes: 0

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk." Votes: 0

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference! Votes: 0

The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got. Votes: 0

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. Votes: 0

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock. Votes: 0

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi. Votes: 0

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. Votes: 0

The limited mind owned by human..requires billions of brains of many generations,before capable enough to understand the truth, the kind of truth which will set us free. Votes: 0

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. Votes: 0

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters. Votes: 0

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments. Votes: 0

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate. Votes: 0

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too. Votes: 0

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes. Votes: 0

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups. Votes: 0

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. Votes: 0

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score. Votes: 0

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries. Votes: 0

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. Votes: 0

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them. Votes: 0

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act. Votes: 0

Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses. Votes: 0

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars. Votes: 0

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state. Votes: 0

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit. Votes: 0

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night. Votes: 0

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence. Votes: 0

Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are? Votes: 0

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced. Votes: 0

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. Votes: 0

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. Votes: 0

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read. Votes: 0

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand. Votes: 0

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent. Votes: 0

Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge. Votes: 0

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish. Votes: 0

I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one. Votes: 0

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself. Votes: 0

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us. Votes: 0

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke. Votes: 0

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. Votes: 0

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. Votes: 0

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way. Votes: 0

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place! Votes: 0

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. Votes: 0

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond. Votes: 0

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more. Votes: 0

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. Votes: 0

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. Votes: 0

I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III. Votes: 0

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for? Votes: 0

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. Votes: 0

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries. Votes: 0

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas. Votes: 0

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets. Votes: 0

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. Votes: 0

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you. Votes: 0

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. Votes: 0

We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it. Votes: 0

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift. Votes: 0

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot! Votes: 0

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. Votes: 0

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom. Votes: 0

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.' Votes: 0

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment. Votes: 0

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. Votes: 0

The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad. Votes: 0

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class. Votes: 0

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me. Votes: 0

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood. Votes: 0

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented. Votes: 0

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. Votes: 0

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'. Votes: 0

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching. Votes: 0

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled. Votes: 0

Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art? Votes: 0

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them. Votes: 0

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs? Votes: 0

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. Votes: 0

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. Votes: 0

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it. Votes: 0

I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog. Votes: 0

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out! Votes: 0

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle. Votes: 0

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent. Votes: 0

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens. Votes: 0

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession. Votes: 0

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. Votes: 0

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border. Votes: 0

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. Votes: 0

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home. Votes: 0

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned. Votes: 0

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left. Votes: 0

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do. Votes: 0

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. Votes: 0

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. Votes: 0

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back. Votes: 0

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. Votes: 0

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think. Votes: 0

In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.) Votes: 0

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper. Votes: 0

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union. Votes: 0

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life. Votes: 0

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. Votes: 0

The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality. Votes: 0