Gave Up Quotes - Page 7

• The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

  Ozzie Newsome

  Years, Ankles, Want

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• I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

  Lenny Bruce

  Thinking, Religion

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• My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

  Tika Sumpter

  Mom, Careers, Opera

  "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Long, Exciting, Persons

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• In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.

  Judy Delton

  Differences, Ends, One Thing

  Judy Delton (1985). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Betterway Books

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• I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

  Elle Varner

  Mom, Gymnastics, Class

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• I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

  Children, Careers, Two

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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• After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

  Gurinder Chadha

  Beach, Years, Careers

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• I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

  Stephin Merritt

  Criticism, Say Anything, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Religious, Latin, Long Ago

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

  Tony Windsor

  Cancer, Two, Smoking

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• I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Stills, Not Giving Up

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• I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Character, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, Kids, Home

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• When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

  Bob Gibson

  Pitching, Quitting, Slam

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• But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

  Steven Pressfield

  Would Be, World, Hitting

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• Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.

  John Yang

  Giving Up, Giving, Remember

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• I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

  Tommy Shaw

  Teaching, Self, Instruction

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• I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

  Ronald Biggs

  Years, Practice, Criminals

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Pet

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• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  Jamelia

  Children, Touching, Looks

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• Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Adjectives, Size

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