I Refuse Quotes
307 quotes by 250 authors
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
— Ben Harper
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I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
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I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse…
— Adele
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to…
— John Luther Adams
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I…
— Andre Kertesz
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I warn you, I refuse to be an object.
— Leonora Carrington
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To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between…
— Frederick Buechner
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I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,…
— Thomas Merton
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I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state…
— Kenneth Kaunda
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
— Mike Tyson
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I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
— Judy Garland
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I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
— Frank Gehry
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Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by…
— Sloane Crosley
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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
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I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover…
— Nina Dobrev
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I…
— Paloma Faith
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I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse…
— Paul Henderson
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France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then…
— Francois Hollande
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