Accepting Quotes - Page 12

• Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

  Moss Hart

  Vanity, Hazards, Trade

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Men, Passivity Is

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Thinking, Want

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• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

  Karl E. Weick

  Mean, Winning, Issues

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• I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

  Bob Brown

  Religious, Mean, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

  Jasmine Guy

  Kitchen, Important, May

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• The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

  Julian Baggini

  Atheist, Feel Better, Giving

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

  Alastair Campbell

  Crisis

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• It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

  David Blunkett

  Responsibility, Would Be, Territory

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• As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

  Tammy Bruce

  Family And Friends, World, Might

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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• As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Want, Attractive, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Men, Guy, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

  John Corbett

  People, Serious, Different

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• I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

  Juan Cole

  Government, People, Political

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• One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

  Nick Carter

  Important, Looks, Might

  "Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Opens Up About 65 Pound Weight Loss" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.

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• With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

  Diana DeGette

  Support, Generations, Citizens

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• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

  Jack Dorsey

  Real, Communication, Squares

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

  Terence Fisher

  Believe, Mind, Facts

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• Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

  Jay Griffiths

  Media, Ideas, Climate

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

  Terry Brooks

  Princess, Cat, Apologizing

  Terry Brooks (2009). “A Princess of Landover”, p.135, Del Rey

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• When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Art, Reality, Media

  Song: W.G.O.N.R.S

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