Rejects Quotes - Page 21

• The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Memories, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

  Julian Baggini

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

  Patrick Duffy

  Brother, Character, Vegas

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• I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, People, Giving

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• It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

  Will Allison

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

  Jung Chang

  War, Chinese, Upheaval

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• It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: "am I doing it right?"

  Stanley Donen

  Unique, Cities, Paris

  "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, Self Made

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• They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Two, Oscars, My Favorite

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

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• I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

  David Gallagher

  Character, Challenges, Roles

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• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Dream, Country, Giving

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". The UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.

  Roger Cotes

  Philosophy, Fall, Science

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• Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

  Big Pun

  Fate, Destiny, Politics

  Song: Mamma, Album: Endangered Species, 2001

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• Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Hate, Long, Germany

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• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  Hari Kunzru

  Class, Ideas, Mobile

  "I'm the bloke who got the big advance" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.

  Bernard Lazare

  Dream, Garden, Russia

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• A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

  David Limbaugh

  Greatness, America, President

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• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Character, America, Islam

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• But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

  Richard Perle

  People, United States, Way

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.236, Random House

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• There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Race

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• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

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• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Real, Perfectly Natural

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Men, Years

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