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One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.
The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.
'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
By refusing to give 16- and 17-year olds the vote, the Conservative Government are risking worsening voter apathy and being on the wrong side of history.
Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political concerns.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
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.
I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.
Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.
Nothing ruins the flow of conversation more quickly than refusing a compliment you have just received. Never disagree with something nice that is said to you or about you.
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.
By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but we are also robbing ourselves of the opportunity to lead.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.
While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.
Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?