Never Quit Quotes - Page 5

• We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

  Danny DeVito

  Moon, Men, Loud

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• Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Talking, Issues, Long

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1989). “The Intentional Stance”, p.350, MIT Press

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• As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

  Gunther Schuller

  Long, Healthy, Quitting

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• Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

  Tim McGraw

  Years, Games, Albums

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• I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

  Martin Scorsese

  Desire, Stories, Satisfied

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

  Dave Chappelle

  Years, Quitting, Seven

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

  Rachel Dratch

  Firsts, Fit, First Time

  Rachel Dratch (2012). “Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle”, p.53, Penguin

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• Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest. Respect people. Respect the environment. Always bring out the best in your family and friends. Change is the only constant. Fear is an illusion. Attitude is everything.

  Sonnie Trotter

  Attitude, People, Giving

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• It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

  Ernie Banks

  Philosophy, Energy, Kind

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• Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

  Dave McKean

  Bird, Captivity, Cages

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• Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  War, Support, Progress

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

  Terence Blacker

  Sorry, People, Priorities

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• There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

  Susan Wiggs

  Mother, Loss, Losing

  Susan Wiggs (2011). “The Goodbye Quilt”, p.162, MIRA

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• Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

  Gus Franklin Mutscher

  Political, Politics, Opponents

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• All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

  Robert McNamara

  Animal, Men, Hands

  "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

  Geoff Dyer

  Errors, Tunes, Keyboards

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• You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

  Peter Shaffer

  Imagination, Leave Me Alone, Strikes

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• Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Aviation, Quitting

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• American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

  Harvey Pekar

  Ongoing, Splendor, Autobiography

  Interview with Shawna Ervin-Gore, www.darkhorse.com.

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• The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Tragedy, Enough

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

  Tim Burton

  Loneliness, Successful, Feelings

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• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

  Maya Lin

  Pain, Cutting, Loss

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Ambition, Anxiety

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• I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

  Frank Mir

  Giving Up, Odds, Wish

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