Accepted Quotes - Page 4

• I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

  Fergie

  Heart, Player, Bits

  "Fergie: Roon's Rages mean he's got heart" by David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2005.

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• The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Innovation, Paradox, Imitation

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• One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

  Michael Korda

  Games, News, Care

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• Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

  Harold Washington

  Business, Cities, Usual

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Too Late, Someday, Ready

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• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Media, Encounters, Literature

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• It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Essence, Long

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  Anthony Storr

  Originality, Enough, Norm

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  Paul Valery

  Psychics, Empowerment, Ironic

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

  Jim Caviezel

  Jesus, Responsibility, Play

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• With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Mother, Found You, Arguing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  Jacky Ickx

  Past, Two, Colleagues

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• It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

  Josh Schwartz

  People, Fluidity, Sexuality

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• I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Stories, Littles

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• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

  Parker Stevenson

  Would Be

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• There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

  John Drinkwater

  Order, Judgment, Conviction

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

  Joseph Jarman

  Missing You, Live Concerts, Important

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  Nancy Travis

  Country, Doctors, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

  Janet Frame

  Needs, Division, Helping

  Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller

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• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Cocktails, Music Is

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• Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

  Paul Samuelson

  Japan, Self, Hype

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• If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Mean, Experts, Process

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• Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

  Chris Elliott

  Television, Wanted, General Public

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• Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

  Armstrong Williams

  People, Doe, Culture

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• Repentance is accepted remorse.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Repentance, Remorse

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