#giving up

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#believe #career #communists #defend #defending

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. ↗

— John M. Ford

#book #certainly #completely #disposable #giving

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well. ↗

— Billy Koch

#enjoyed #giving #giving up #i #kept

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#giving #giving up #i #little #majors

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#giving #giving up #i #movies #regretted

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#attention #congress #constitution #erosion #getting

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive. ↗

— Gary Numan

#aggressive #became #came #early #ever

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#being #being famous #comfortable #control #famous

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#diplomacy #does #due #end #general

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#giving #giving up #happy #i #life