Deny Quotes - Page 34

• After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

  Edward Hopper

  Character, Trying, Inheritance

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Rights, Critical, Persons

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• The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

  David Icke

  Thinking, People, Individuality

  Leading Edge Newspaper, July/August 1996.

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• You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

  Jesse Jackson

  May, Mates

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson likens gay marriage push to fight over slavery". Interview with Rene Lynch, articles.latimes.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  Philip Johnson

  Twists, Mold, Riches

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• In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Years, Office

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Achievement, Adults

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• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Butterfly, Cockroaches, Consciousness

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Events, Doe

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Denial, Form, Performers

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• Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Beautiful, Travel, Smart

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• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

  Nelson Mandela

  Assessment, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

  Brennan Manning

  Hurt, Believe, Soul

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Gay, Rights

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• Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Race, Sexuality

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• It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Country, People, Secret

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• I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

  Mike Myers

  Father, Thinking, Want

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• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  Rachel Nichols

  Wine, Meals, Ends

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• When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Block, Real

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• I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

  Carre Otis

  Thinking, Two, Want

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• We kind of deny the stages of life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kind, Stage, Stages Of Life

  "Damned if You Do: Chuck Palahniuk on His New Novel". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2011.

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• To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Support, Three

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.57, Random House

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