Saying No Quotes - Page 6

• The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

  James Cameron

  People, Answers, Film

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.

  Karen Allen

  Jobs, Offering, Roles

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• [The Man] was a case where it was a funny role teamed up with another actor. It's a great teaming. And the role was a bigger role. It wasn't so much that it was a co-starring role. This is not a new direction. I'm not saying, 'No. I'm only now co-starring.' It just happens it's a co-starring role.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Men, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Agency, Agents

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's not going to happen, we don't have to worry about that.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Worry, Looks, Republican

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.

  Evan Osnos

  Promise, President, Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Progress, Rebel

  Source: bitesizecliftbar.tumblr.com

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• What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that."

  Ted Cruz

  Clothes, People, Promise

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.

  Charles Landry

  Educational, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality.  Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blood, Vitality, Red

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.63, Frog Books

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• The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans. You could find signs here in Boston in the restaurants saying "No dogs and Irish."

  Noam Chomsky

  Dog, Boston, African American

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

  Drew Barrymore

  Breakup, Thinking, Trying

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it. I've been very adamant about saying, "No! I don't want to release a book just for the sake of writing a book. I'm going to write a book when I feel like I have something to say in a book."

  Lilly Singh

  Book, Writing, Peers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Philosophical, Talking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You`ve got James Comey on camera on Capitol Hill saying, - no, it is not much less of an offense than Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is far more serious. It was prosecuted.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Cameras, Facts, Serious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote for him at the front end. We could have filibustered that and stopped it. George and I - George was the leader at the time - took the heat from every liberal group saying, "No, no, that's not the way the system is supposed to work, since the Constitution - the president shall propose and the Constitution shall dispose, we're going to let them hear this."

  Joe Biden

  Leader, President, Way

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Saying no is so heartbreaking.

  Britney Spears

  Heartbreaking

  The X Factor, season 2, 2012.

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• Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

  Michael Porter

  Mean, Choices, Kind

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• I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.

  Jimmy Carter

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.

  Duncan Jones

  Moon, Talking, People

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• Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

  Steven Tyler

  Cheer, Drug, Just Saying

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• The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

  Sam Malone

  Landing, Closest

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• I think every job that you do gives you the opportunity to learn something new. As hokey as that sounds, that's why I have a problem saying no to my friends. That's why I do so many random comedy shows.

  Busy Philipps

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

  Robert Mankoff

  Men, Islands, Guy

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

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