#determined

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. ↗

— Frank Robinson

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My parents were determined to move into the middle class. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

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Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

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I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

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I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined. ↗

— Julian Cope

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