Rejects Quotes - Page 35

• Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.

  Hans Bellmer

  Childhood, Anxiety, Erotic

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• As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.

  Laurence Boldt

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

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• ... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system.

  Jeff Bezos

  Rejects You, Healthy, Style

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• It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

  Saint Augustine

  Ignorant, Together, Neglect

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• The heart cannot exalt in what the mind rejects.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Heart, Mind

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• It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

  Mitt Romney

  Party, Circles, America

  "CN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!

  Lady Gaga

  Letting Go, Insecurity, Want

  "Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden". TV Special, www.imdb.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

  Noah Webster

  Art, Character, Citizens

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• Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

  Noah Webster

  Mean, Spirit, Persuasion

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• I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Oil, Limits, Theory

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• Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).

  Neil T Anderson

  Psychology, Soul, Essentials

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• I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.

  Neil T Anderson

  Sacrifice, Blood, Ministry

  Neil T. Anderson, Rich Miller (2009). “Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ”, p.207, Gospel Light Publications

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• Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them, but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves, Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily.

  Marco Rubio

  Keys, Air, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Years, Advice

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• ... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies man's ability to reject the persuasion God uses to influence that free will while leaving its metaphysical base intact! Persuasion, not compulsion, is what even He must rely upon! And persuasion, by its very definition, must be resistible!

  Don Richardson

  Men, Rely Upon, Decision

  Don Richardson (1984). “Eternity in Their Hearts”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  People, Silence, Violence

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.

  Amir Taheri

  Islamic, Mean, Names

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• It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

  Don DeLillo

  Fall, Lines, Certain

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Old Wounds, People

  Iyanla Vanzant (1995). “Interiors: A Black Woman's Healing--in Progress”, Writers & Readers

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Fighting, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

  Kola Boof

  Jesus, Men, Islam

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

  Paul Bloom

  Kindness, Buddhism, Thinking

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea that harpsichord is old. And I reject the idea that something old is therefore not good or not popular. Lots of things are old. Lots of traditions are old - cooking, art. I like it because it's beautiful.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Beautiful, Art, Ideas

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• We [European countries] probably need to move forward together, each at their own speed. The faster ones, that could be the countries in the euro zone. The others would be those who are interested in the continued development of the common market, but reject the idea of an ever stronger political integration.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Moving Forward, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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