Gave Up Quotes - Page 10

• I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

  Julianna Baggott

  Senior, Sibling, Writing

  "The Rumpus Interview With Julianna Baggott". Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

  Lolo Jones

  Winning, Gold, Four

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• I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.

  Rebecca Black

  Giving, Satisfaction, Decided

  "Rebecca Black Talks Friday and Cyberbullying in First Interview" by Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. March 17, 2011.

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• When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.

  Don Mattingly

  Team, Player, Games

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• Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

  Alain de Botton

  Summer, Berries, Might

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

  Tony Evans

  Mistake, Wife, Scary

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• Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Yellow, Different

  "Joan Didion's Yellow Corvette". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Careers, Had Enough, Kind

  Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Drinking, Oxygen, Smoking

  "The Guardian - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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• The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fashion, Kings, Men

  "Is Tech The New Black?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 08, 2011.

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• Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Jobs, Philosophy, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

  Years, Giving, Listening

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• Like Nietzsche, Heidegger also gave up on the prospect that schools and universities would nurture the kind of reflective openness to the way of things that, certainly by the 1940s, he identified with authentic thinking. The authentic person is not the Promethean, iron-willed figure that pops up in Nietzsche, but someone more like the Daoist sages whom Heidegger admired.

  David E. Cooper

  School, Thinking, Iron

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

  Clint Eastwood

  Politician, Clinton, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

  John Irving

  Crazy, People, Giving

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

  Henny Youngman

  Atheist, Holiday, Christmas Wishes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

  Shakira

  Strong, Stubborn, Strong Willed

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

  Vera Rubin

  Giving Up, Teaching, Needed

  Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org

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• Ebay was involved and gave up 150 million passwords. Target was attacked and gave up 40 million credit card numbers. Attacks like these are happening on a regular basis, both in the United States and around the world and the costs in terms of privacy or security in our financial sector are truly extraordinary.

  Donald Trump

  Ebay, Numbers, United States

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Struggle, Self, African American

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Over a year before I started recording Salad Days, so I finally sat down and was like I have to do this. And it did feel like a chore. I was looking at it in a completely wrong way, trying to one up myself. Just the typical sophomore album bullshit. The main thing I got out of it is I eventually gave up on all that stuff. I had to re-learn why I liked making music in the first place, why I liked recording in my room all the time. Because it's fun. It's fun for me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Years, Bullshit

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual. For me, it's always a failure of diplomacy. Our willingness to immediately turn to a military solution is disturbing.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, People, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

  Richard Norris

  Coffee, Thinking, Missing

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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