Gave Up Quotes - Page 9

• My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

  David Hasselhoff

  Dream, Ambition, Broadway

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• We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

  Jasmine Guy

  Years, Way, Lasts

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• We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• I gave up before birth.

  Samuel Beckett

  Birth, Futility

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.232, Grove Press

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• There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

  Adam Ross

  Football, Book, Writing

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

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• One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

  David Banner

  America, People, Black

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• When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.

  David Lovering

  Party, Class, Magic

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• It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

  Assata Shakur

  Taken, Pride, Men

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• He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Summer, Hope, Ambition

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I had a daughter to feed. I couldn't keep doing something full time that didn't pay the bills.

  Doc Brown

  Daughter, Rap, Pay

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• As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Determination, Ideas, Talent

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• When I was young my teachers were the old.
  I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Fire, Age

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.744, Harvard University Press

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• I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

  Willie Nelson

  Country

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• I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Football, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Technology, Balls

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• I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Jobs, Vanity, Paris

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

  James Carville

  Two, Balls, Ifs

  "James Carville stands by Obama comment" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

  Gillian Jacobs

  New York, Community, Yeah

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• When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Brother, Dad

  "Interview with Ninja II Shadow of a Tear star Scott Adkins". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 3, 2014.

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• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Jesus, Discovery

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

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• If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

  James Lovelock

  Land, Environmental, Beef

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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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• What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Father, Son, Sake

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