Rejected Quotes
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You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.
Chester Middlebrook Pierce
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It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
Kathryn Tucker Windham -
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.
William John Macquorn Rankine -
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?
Athenagoras of Athens -
I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
Renee Fleming -
Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)
Dan Harris -
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
Erich Segal
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I have rejected Juventus four times; it's a beautiful pussy that doesn't get me horny.
Antonio Cassano -
All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.
Karl Ernst von Baer -
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.
Karl Hess -
Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb.
Alice Notley -
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It had been two longs days since I had seen my Gothic mate. I was so preoccupied with Alexander, dreaming of the next time we'd be together, nothing else mattered. I didn't wash the spot where his tender love lips had pressed against my flesh. I was acting like I was straight out of a Gidget movie! What had happened to me? I was losing my edge! For the first time in my life I was really afraid. Afraid of never seeing him again and afraid of being rejected.
Ellen Schreiber -
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
Romano Prodi
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Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."
Charles Henry Mackintosh -
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
Michael Gove -
Whoever innovates something in this matter of ours that is not part of it, will have it rejected.
Aisha -
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
Sandra Bullock -
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
Debra Dean
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
Courtney Milan -
Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
Rupert Penry-Jones -
You take the risk of being rejected.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.
Steve Israel