Gave Up Quotes - Page 10

• I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Important, Able, Different

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

  Britt Ekland

  Coffee, Cups, Vices

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• When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

  Jonathan Franzen

  People, Way, Weirdness

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• God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

  David Cassidy

  Mother, Careers, Looks

  "David Cassidy: My family values" by Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Cutting, Thinking, Two

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

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• There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

  Deidre Hall

  Knows

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• I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

  William Hague

  Writing, Piano, Things I Love

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• I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Jobs, Mean

  "My Steve Jobs story…". shumbodynamedharry.tumblr.com.

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• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  David Nail

  Country, Song, Long

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• I gave up my childhood for a career.

  Brenda Lee

  Careers, Childhood

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• I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Giving Up, Medicine

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• When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

  Frank Zappa

  Republican

  "Thicke of the Night" with Alan Thicke, April 28, 1984.

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• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Doors, Order

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• Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Victory, Pressure

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• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Bird, Listening

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Levels, Lost

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• I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

  Billy Childish

  Drinking, Yoga, Health

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Caring, Lasts, November

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Long, Looks, Long Time

  "DVF Up Close". Interview with Chuck Close, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 31, 2011.

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• I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Writing, Nervous, Tics

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• After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Nuclear, Hussein, Want

  "Rumsfeld doesn't support sending U.S. troops into Libya". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

  Philip Johnson

  Years, People, House

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• Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire.

  John Nance Garner

  Jobs, Mistake, Government

  1963 In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

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