#deserve

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.' ↗

— David Duchovny

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The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country. ↗

— Vicente Fox

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One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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