#refuse

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#home #i #more #much #phone

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#debate #defend #first #first of all #i

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#beaten #down #going #horrible #i

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans. ↗

— Harold Ford

#give #help #i #majority #new

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#away #because #day #does #e-mail

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. ↗

— Fred Frith

#any #everyday #everyday life #examine #feeling

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#hope #individual #individuals #lose #nation

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. ↗

— Judith Light

#circles #closets #exactly #fear #gay