#refused

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

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. ↗

— Eric Holder

#african americans #blacks #country #couple #did

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. ↗

— Teri Garr

#david #i #letterman #marriage #obvious

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. ↗

— Henry Miller

#condition #disturbed #either #face #forever

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#buy #doing #drink #got #i

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#duty #his #life #man #manner

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#disney #film #himself #kind #last

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#audiences #crusade #divided #graham #his

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i