#refused

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #chance #had #i #me

I refused to take no for an answer. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#i #refused #take

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#asthma #away #coaches #diagnosed #during

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #catering #confirmation #democrats #entire

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#had #i #life #marriage #my life

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#anybody #i #i am #jungles #never

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

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#close #come #dad #i #magic

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#background #cane #cut #forebears #i

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