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Quotes About Refusal

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.
~ Shaggy
I had the inability to ask for help when I needed it. People offered to help me, but I refused. They'd ask 'How are you?' and I'd answer, 'Better than you.'
~ Scott Hall
Denmark and Estonia both refused to prosecute the Danske Bank case when we filed in 2013.
~ Bill Browder
What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They've refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV and instead have championed television drama as an important part of our culture.
~ Douglas Henshall
I didn't want to do an item role as a Sikh in 20 years of my career. Once, in 'Chor Machaaye Shor,' Bobby Deol and I disguised ourselves as sardars to save ourselves, but I refused many other roles.
~ Rajpal Yadav
More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.
~ Maverick Carter
Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
~ Tom Shales
I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!
~ Rod Stewart
Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. We have to denounce and eradicate it.
~ Marine Le Pen
I refuse some movies. I cannot always give reasons why I refuse. Sometimes, I refuse just because I feel like refusing! I always look at my role, and never bother about who the hero will be when choosing a movie.
~ Neha Dhupia
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
~ Pete Seeger
One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.
~ Herta Muller
It's just astonishing to me that the media is so interested in how much it costs to secure our border and has no interest in the cost of refusing to secure our border.
~ Stephen Miller
A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.
~ Roustam Tariko
I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
~ Etel Adnan
To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
~ Gillian Flynn
If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.
~ Gillian Flynn
I stomp away from him. I refuse to spend my time with anybody who doesn't think this is the end of the world. If I have to listen to a guy putting a positive spin on this, my head is probably going to explode. At this moment, I want nothing but gloom, despair, negativity, and complaining.
~ Gordon Korman
People from Tony Stone refused to let PhotoDisc become part of the industry trade association. Then we bought PhotoDisc. There was complete shock.
~ Mark Getty
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.
~ Italo Calvino
Creationists just plain refuse to see it.
~ Sean Carroll
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.
~ Shane Claiborne
Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand. "No, thank you." Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. "I, uh, I was teasing.
~ Shannon Hale
The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH
~ Shel Silverstein