Accepting Quotes - Page 27

• The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  People, Perfect, Leader

  "Evan Rachel Wood, Uncut". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. October 5, 2011.

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• You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

  Kenny Wormald

  Able, Determined, Heard

  "Kenny Wormald Interview FOOTLOOSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Men, Squares

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• I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Nashville, Favorites Things

  "Taylor Swift On Songwriting, Nashville & the Thrill of Spontaneous Music Making". Associated Press Interview, www.billboard.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

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• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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• I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

  Grant Morrison

  Jobs, Men, Expectations

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

  Holly Madison

  Makeup, People, Dresses

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• I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

  Angela Davis

  Hard Times, Justice, Diversity

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• The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

  Eddie McGuire

  Culture, Mediocrity, Defeat

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• It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Real, Perfectly Natural

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• A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.

  Dusty Springfield

  Girl, Boys, People

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• Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Want

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• I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Determination, Exercise

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• Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Expression, People

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• SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Ordinary, Willing, Ordinary Life

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• TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

  Jon Postel

  Principles, Conservative, Implementation

  "The Robustness Principle". RFC 793, "Transmission Control Protocol", entire text of section 2.10, www.ietf.org. September 1981.

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• Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

  Francis Collins

  Intelligent, Design, Natural

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• I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

  Mariano Rivera

  Thinking, Defeat

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• If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay, Two, Normal

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• Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.

  Sonia Friedman

  Advice, Know Yourself, Knows

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• Actors were the first people to accept me.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  People, Actors, Firsts

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

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• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Giving, Competition, Outcomes

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