Gave Up Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  Harriet Harman

  Educational, People, Generations

  "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Heart, Loss, Wife

  "Lot's Wife". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by A.S.Kline,

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• We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Feet, People, Fans

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• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, My Passion, I Can

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• I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Careers, Had Enough, Kind

  Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Crazy, Drug, Gone

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  Dan O'Brien

  Dream, Winning, Jail

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