#refused

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#another day #barack #care #cared #comes

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

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#been #despised #except #gift #outward

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#bring #earth #enough #find #give

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#asked #fonda #hanoi #jane #jane fonda

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it! ↗

— Peter Hook

#germany #held #imports #making #never

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. ↗

— Jude Law

#allow #also #because #believe #feel