#refuse

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#creature #dangerous #delicate #destroyed #empty

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#been #every #evil #go #good

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#family #feel #get #guilty #had

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#because #black #black or white #connected #fees

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#another #another way #awards #more #noise

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #bit #english #found #irish

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#adjustment #continuing #court #gain #involves

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. ↗

— Diogenes

#anything #because #called #dog #fawn

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#allow #clean #close #did #expect