#dismiss

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

#always #anything #business #business career #career

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. ↗

— William Safire

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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you. ↗

— Maxine Waters

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Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#contrary #dismiss #easy #everything #gossip

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this. ↗

— Jayne Bauling

#disloyal #disloyalty #dismiss #disrespect #employee

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. ↗

— Brian Eno

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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

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