Quitting Quotes - Page 26

• Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

  Robert Lipsyte

  Fun, Writing, People

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• For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Strong, Men, Work Out

  "Jennifer Lawrence talks 'X-Men,' fame and 'Hunger Games'". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.washingtonpost.com. May 29, 2011.

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• Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

  Laura Furman

  Tasks, Impossible, Resurrection

  Laura Furman (2011). “The Mother Who Stayed: Stories”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

  Anna Benson

  Dream, Media, Annoyed

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• I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

  Ralph Stanley

  Believe, Home, Rocks

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• There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Thinking, Shopping, Justice

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• Zeroth law: You must play the game
  First law: You can't win
  Second law: You can't break even
  Third law: You can't quit the game.

  C.P. Snow

  Winning, Law, Games

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Respect, Team, Believe

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  Bennett Madison

  Summer, Mother, Beach

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

  Carter Burwell

  Children, Kids, Piano

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• If you never quit, youll never fail.

  Robert Kennedy

  Never Quit, Failing, Ifs

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• Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

  Edwin Louis Cole

  World, Failing, There Is No I In Team

  Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

  Jaime Escalante

  School, Poverty, Condemning

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

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• I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

  Lars Frederiksen

  Drinking, Blood, Sick

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• I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Creating, Stuff

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• Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Awareness, Gifted, Offers

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• Nothing to do but work,
  Nothing to eat but food,
  Nothing to wear out but clothes,
  To keep one from going nude.

  Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

  Clothes, Never Quit, Nothingness

  "The Pessimist". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Linda Gray

  Mistake, Never Quit, Keep Going

  "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.

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• The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

  Squarepusher

  Mind, Trying, Territory

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• Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Winning, Marijuana, Years

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• I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Thinking, Missing, Never Quit

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• I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

  Stephanie Mills

  Trying, Never Quit, Given

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• Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.

  Maurice Jones-Drew

  Thinking, Hey, Urban

  "Critics question injured QB's toughness" by Tom Rock, www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2011.

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• We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

  Emma Anderson

  Thinking, Bored, Done

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Running, Long, Pennsylvania

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