Emo Philips Quotes

If they [terrorists] see a Western hostage can be sold for a couple of million dollars, they may conclude that by holding on to an American, they'll get some money out of us.

Hell no! Not one thing! You don't reward a kidnapper.

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

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.

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

We know that there are programs coming up that he wants, and wants badly. And the only way that we will get back the programs is to hold them for ransom.

These are horrible choices. On the one hand if you don't pay the ransom, you are putting the lives of the hostages in almost certain danger. On the other hand, if you do pay the ransom, you are enabling and increasing the likelihood of the kind of behavior that caused the problem in the first place.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

Can't we kidnap Old Jethro, force him to help us, then vanquish him and the healer?" Bran choked on his drink.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

Mencheres dropped his hands from my shoulders. “You know that’s what he wants. He’ll want to trade, you for her.” “Then I’ll do it,” I said. Bones’s grip on me turned to steel. “No, you won’t.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And then first it was Interscope, and then it was Atlantic. And then, I ended up signing with Atlantic, but it was like a long process, a really long... it was A LONG PROCESS. I feel like it took me two years to do it.

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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