Turned Down Quotes - Page 2

• I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.

  Koren Zailckas

  Gun, Voice, Sound

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.8, Penguin

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• Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Two, Laughing

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• I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

  George Carlin

  Art, School, Different

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Light, Doors, Things I Love

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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• I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

  Arsenio Hall

  Son, Opportunity, Years

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• Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

  Stephen Fry

  Faces, Brad

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Movie, Summer, Daughter

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

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• I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Taste, Bases

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• I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

  David Duchovny

  I Love You, Jobs, Thinking

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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• I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

  Simon Cowell

  Idols, Needs, Want

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• In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Chuck E Cheese

  Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone (2014). “Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Years, Lasts, Twelve

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• I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Jobs, Diners

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• Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Smart, Past

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Ideas, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Teaching, School

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• People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.

  Robert Winston

  Hate, Thoughtful, Opportunity

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• For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

  John Travolta

  Names, Gentleman, Midnight

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Years, Giving

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• Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Movie, Stars, Children

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• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  James Surowiecki

  Opportunity, Apples, Google

  "Groupon Clipping". www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

  Steven Spielberg

  Successful, Men, Two

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• I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

  Dennis Quaid

  Regret, Golf, Tin

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• I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

  Tom Petty

  Cheesy, Made, Feels

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